Antony Beevor

Artemis Cooper

A vibrant anecdotal chronicle of the social, political, and cultural rebirth that Paris experienced after World War II uses archives, diaries, journals and interviews to document the beginnings of Existentialism, the Theater of the Absurd, fashion's New Look, and more. Reprint.

Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949

Lisa Miller

Listened to this on audio. Fascinating account of Paris from the liberation in 1944 from Nazi Germany to 1950 before the EU began. Lots about the resistance, Charles de Gaulle, the communist party, the existentialist movement and how it all came together.