Antony Beevor's "Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949" is a remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944 . Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by [...]

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educa[...]

Patrick Leigh Fermor's enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally [...]

"En ytterst levande skildring av Paris, både socialt, politiskt och kulturellt, under denna spännande epok ? en färgstark och reportageartad beskrivning av ett stycke modern europeisk historia." Bibliotekstjänst
"Enastående, enormt underhållande, spännande." Daily Telegraph
"En riktig[...]

Normandian maihinnoususta alkanut liittoutuneiden kampanja päättyi Pariisin taisteluihin elokuussa 1944. Saksalaisten antautumista seuranneeseen pariisilaisten riemuun sekoittuivat voimakkaat kansalliset ristiriidat ja yhteistoimintaan osallistuneiden vaino. Pariisin kulttuurinen elämä nousi kuk[...]