Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

This history follows Paris from the August 1944 liberation through the early Fourth Republic. Beevor and Cooper trace the arrival of de Gaulle and the Allies, the unofficial and official purges of collaborators, shortages of food and fuel, and the black market. They set party conflict, the Communist presence, and the first Cold War alignments beside cafe and literary life, fashion, and the return of tourists. Figures include de Gaulle, party leaders, and writers of Saint-Germain-des-Pres. The book is a political and social narrative of one city in the five years after occupation, not a military history of the wider campaign.

Three-quarter bound in buckram printed with a photograph of an AFPU photographer kissing a child before cheering crowds, 26 August 1944. Red slipcase.