Is Paris Burning?

Summer of 1944. Every bridge, historical landmark, and civic building in Nazi-occupied Paris was wired with explosives. Hitler’s plan was to reduce the city to rubble if Allied troops got too close. He didn’t know that the Allies were planning to bypass Paris, and of course the resistance fighters d......more

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Collins & Lapierre were successful writers of popular history in the mid 20th century. Their method was mainly to interview ordinary participants in the events, and write vivid accounts bringing the memories to life. In IS PARIS BURNING? the memories of Paris's last year under the Nazis were less th......more

Seventy years ago, in August 1944, Paris was nearer to be reduced to a pile of ruins. Ordered by a maddened Fuhrer, who " barely three years earlier had ruled Europe from the tundras of Lapland to the flanks of Pyramids, from the rocky coast of Brittany to the outskirts of Moscow", but whose armies......more

This should have been an easy 5 as the liberation of Paris from the Nazis is a watershed event. The author, as with all authors who are journalists, uses who ,what, where and why instead of telling the soul of the story. Irwin Shaw the famous writer of Rich Man, Poor Man was in the battle and is bar......more