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“A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill.”–Sunday Telegraph

From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem

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 Picassocontributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group; Revised edition (August 31, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0142437921
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142437926
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.05 x 8.44 inches

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Reviewer: G W W3
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Fascinating Mosaic
Review: This book describes France during the critical period of 1944-50, including: the Liberation; the punishment of collaborators; the return and then the resignation of De Gaulle; coming to terms with Vichy; the intrigues and influence of the Communist party and its manipulation by Stalin; and the ferment and controversies of the Paris intellectuals. Even changing women’s fashions merit a chapter. This was a fascinating, dramatic time as a great nation picked up the pieces after defeat and occupation and tried to map out a future for itself. The focus is less on military campaigns than in Beevor’s other books. I found the story engrossing.

Reviewer: Charles G Ruether
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great overview
Review: The book surveys France from D-Day to about the early 1990s. It is very detailed in the first 3/4 of the book but does loose ends clean up as the volume ends. My criticism is that at many key points it uses French to describe issues with no paraphrase to clarify. I cannot learn French, as much as I like to, but I have literally thousands of books to read. Fine book nonetheless.

Reviewer: B. Boeke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The book has wonderful variety and richly evocative accounts of many leading figures …
Review: Antony Beevor is simply a marvelous writer, and the ability to use his wife’s knowledge and experience really enriches this book. The use of Diana Cooper’s father’s diaries (and his memoir filled out with the daughter’s memories) is a major strength of this account of one of the most fascinating and troubling eras of French history. The book has wonderful variety and richly evocative accounts of many leading figures and events. A joy to read and savor.

Reviewer: exurbanite
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A jumbled book about a fractured nation
Review: Books co-authored by husband and wife teams are not uncommon. The results can be harmonious; in this case they are not. Antony Beevor is a distinguished historian and Artemis Cooper is a well-connected writer of considerable experience. Unfortunately, their contributions to this work do not mesh well. It’s as if two separate books were chopped up and their pieces randomly pasted together. This is not to say that the resulting jumble is without interest. On the contrary, there is much absorbing material to be found. The liberation of Paris and the months and years that followed were, after all, a unique and unprecedented time and the authors have managed to pack a lot of fascinating information together. But here’s the problem: they leave it to the reader to find a path through the muddle. Antony Beevor, one must assume, contributed the political and economic sections of the manuscript while Artemis Cooper added the cultural and societal portions. The political parts relay historical events; the cultural lean toward material of a more trifling sort, sometimes merely social events and societal gossip. On the other hand, there are also intriguing portrayals of the friendships, rivalries, and quarrels among famous literary figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, André Malraux, etc. Less interesting are the often lengthy lists of lesser known intellectuals, many of whom have long since sunk into obscurity.These are accompanied by portrayals of the bitter controversies over their wartime activities: was it resistance, collaboration, or some of each? Artemis Cooper is the granddaughter of Duff Cooper, a politician and aristocrat who was Churchill’s wartime representative to De Gaulle’s Free France and who became ambassador to France in 1944. He was married to the prominent socialite and memoirist Diana Cooper. Artemis’s use of their diaries and letters, adds useful previously unpublished material to the book, though sometimes veering off into quotes taken from letters to figures like Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford with little purpose beyond name dropping. France has been a deeply fractured nation since the days of the 18th century Revolution. Divisions between left and right, republicans and royalists, Catholics and anti-clericals, are integral to its history. The story continues in the period covered in this work. The war divided those sympathetic to the Vichy regime from those who despised it, from collaborators to the underground resistance. The split and anger continued in varied forms at war’s end. The struggle was now between the powerful French Communist party and allied unions favorably disposed to Moscow versus Western oriented Gaullists seeking to restore a democratic republic. While the latter won the day, the crevices that divided the nation then continue. French president after French president has struggled to break the stranglehold hard-left unions hold over the economy, each without success. Emmanuel Macron is continuing the effort with the outcome remaining in doubt.

Reviewer: Kimberly Baker
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Dual-Focus Postwar History of Paris
Review: This is a interesting joint project from husband-and-wife team Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper. As one reviewer has noted, this book has somewhat of a split personality — there is a lot of history on the strength of the Communists in postwar France and their subsequent repudiation by most mainstream French as a result of the show trials, but there is also a great deal of kind of celebrity history. The two make for an odd mix and prevent the book from feeling very cohesive, but nonetheless one does learn a lot about Paris (and France) in this era.The authors do want to make the most they can from their access to the papers of Duff Cooper (he was the British Ambassador at the time; Ms. Cooper is his granddaughter), so that also makes for an uneven focus, but shines a light on yet another aspect of the postwar years.Overall — unbalanced focus, but you will learn about the period, and the writing itself is good.

Reviewer: JLuiz Alquéres
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Paris as ever, not surprising, but always charming
Review: Paris after the liberation tells the history of a dramatic period of the French Republic when the country “should go the psychoanalyst divan” but , instead, try to go ahead with all the problems of the past ( hate to German, defeat. antisemitism, economic crisis, intelectual pride, xenophoby etc ), aggravated by the humiliated years under the Vichy regime. The way this reflects in attitudes of the key persons of the time: De Gaulle, Churchill, Marshall, Truman, Stalin is explored not only in accurate historical texts but with delicious contributions of diaries, letters and memoirs of lost conversations of people that live and work make this book a pleasure to read.

Reviewer: janet soderberg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best by far!
Review: After reading Beevor’s history of the Spanish Civil War, I had high hopes for this book, and it did not disappoint. Today we have largely forgotten the crucial events of the immediate post war period, and the role of France and Paris in those events. This book brings that period back. As a former resident of Blvd St. Germain, I especially enjoyed the recounting of the role played by people, clubs, restaurants, and publications of the Left Bank.

Reviewer: Anand
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The book is in a very bad conditionI am very disappointed after waiting for so long

Reviewer: Rudi F
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is not an account of Parisian life during World War II, but a fascinating account by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper of socio-political life in the period immediately after liberation. Paris attracted the great, the good, the famous (such as Ernest Hemingway) and the not-so-good, all of whom played some part in the shaping of post war Paris and France. To someone of my generation (a UK senior citizen now) reading references to Malcolm Muggeridge (a journalist and a UK TV personality, who had been an intelligence officer during the war) came as something of a surprise. The dynamics of political life and struggles in Paris are also detailed. This is not a book to be rushed in the reading.

Reviewer: Andrew Stevens
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Have read quite a few books by Antony Beevor, as they are an easy read, good flow & informative, without bombarding you with huge array of numbers & stats. My go-to as an author when wanting to get into a subject – My first read on French Post war liberation. Highly recommend.

Reviewer: Claude Carrier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book flowed very well from Antony Beevor’s D-Day book. It gave a great perspective of the aftermath of the German occupation.Highly recommend to any WWII enthusist.

Reviewer: Bulmaro Valdés
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A very good history of a not so well known period of Paris after World War II. Different aspects are described, political, military, cultural and every day life.

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