{"product_id":"paris-after-the-liberation-1944-1949-9780142437926","title":"Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill.\"--\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eD-Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Arnhem\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntony Beevor\u003c\/b\u003e was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; \u003ci\u003eStalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942--1943;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBerlin: The Downfall, 1945\u003c\/i\u003e. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote \u003ci\u003eParis: After the Liberation: 1944--1949\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtemis Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e's work includes \u003ci\u003eCairo in the War 1939-1945\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWriting at the Kitchen Table, \u003c\/i\u003e the authorized biography of Elizabeth David, both of which are published by Penguin. She has also edited two collections of letters: \u003ci\u003eA Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper\u003c\/i\u003e. Her grandfather, Duff Cooper, was the first postwar British ambassador to Paris, and his private diaries and papers provide one of the previously unpublished sources for this book. Artemis Cooper and Anthony Beevor were both appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. They are married and have two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911214960914,"sku":"9780142437926","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25b0feb7-1c2a-48f1-8814-c85eab8efedd.jpg?v=1738733916","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paris-after-the-liberation-1944-1949-9780142437926","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}