The blood of free men : the liberation of Paris, 1944
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.542143/NEIBERG,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2012]
©2012
©2012
DESCRIPTION
xxxi, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780465023998 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0465023991 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0465023991 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The end of this nightmare -- Resistance -- Berlin, Washington, London and Paris -- The smasher of cities -- The guns go off, August 15-18 -- "The most beautiful days of our lives," August 19-20 -- The days of the barricades, August 21 and 22 -- Deliverance, August 23 and 24 -- Apotheosis, August 25-27
Describes the operation involving Resistance fighters, Allied commanders, and French citizens that resulted in the liberation of Paris in 1944 from German occupation and ultimately helped shape the outcome of World War II