The Liberation of Paris

There’s five-eighths of a good book here, but it desperately needed editing and reorganization that it didn’t get. The French police seizing a building is told as a new fact in three sequential chapters.

But the worst of it is the glib treatment of the Holocaust. Con Choltitz’s active participation is mentioned, but he’s still written as a hero. The murder of 97% of foreign Jews in Paris is qualified with a “Bad as that may seem”. You do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.