Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Electronic resource

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2010 by Penguin USA, Inc..

ISBN:: 978-1-101-17324-4

(1 review)

In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against this volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists— including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picasso—contributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.

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4 stars

It's interesting to see how much power Communism held in the minds of people during and after WWII and how France too was in some danger of falling into the Soviet bear hug.

Paris being Paris it was also important to read about the cultural leaders of the time, though I wold have liked to see more of daily life instead of how drunk a an existentialist got at a party.