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Is Paris Burning?

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Is Paris Burning?

By: Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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"Is Paris burning?" is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city.

Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly - and how miraculously - the city escaped Hitler's secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs, in meticulous and riveting detail, the network of fateful events - day by day, moment by moment - that saved the City of Light.

Best-selling authors and renowned journalists Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre spent three years researching this book, drawing on French Resistance radio messages, German military records, countless interviews, and secret correspondence between de Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Here they recreate the drama, the fervor, and the triumph that heralded one of the most dramatic events of our time.

©1964 Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
Europe France Military Wars & Conflicts World War II War
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Enjoyed this history of the final days of Paris' occupation by the Nazis told from many perspectives. Found it interesting, especially having been to Paris and able to vividly picture what was being described.

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This book is a sweeping historical account of the exact details of the liberation of Paris from the Nazi occupation of 1940-1944. The amount of detail is astonishing, with no stone left unturned of what occurred in the final days of the occupation of Paris. Readers will experience the perspectives of the Allied, German, and French Military forces, and learn of personal accounts along the way. This book is a fantastic read for anyone who is interested in WWII history and in Paris herself.

Necessary reading for fans of WWII and Paris history

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Great account of the liberation of Paris during WWII from the Allied, French and German perspectives . Nice balance of historical facts and personal stories. Narrator was incredible.

Wonderfully engaging . Perfectly performed.

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