Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949
Description
In the years following Paris’s liberation in 1944, the city struggled to rebuild amid political upheaval, social reckoning, and the uncertain beginnings of the Cold War. Drawing on a rich range of sources, this vivid history explores postwar justice, black-market economies, diplomatic tensions, and the daily lives of Parisians emerging from occupation and hardship. The period’s cultural revival takes center stage as writers, artists, and intellectuals—including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picasso—helped reshape the city’s identity and influence. Evocative and wide-ranging, the book presents Paris as both a city in recovery and a defining arena for the political and cultural forces of the modern age.
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ebook
Penguin USA, Inc.
Published Jan 1, 2010
465 pages
ISBN: 9781101173244
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Details
First Published
1994
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949 by Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper.