Author: Robert Forrest WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Paris on Parade
Author: Robert Forrest WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Paris parade
Author: Daniel FrasnayPublisher:
ISBN: 9782911966101
Category : Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Languages : fr
Pages : 111
Book Description
Paris Parade
Author: Robert DoisneauPublisher:
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Category : Human beings
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Parade of Paris
Author: Geo. L. ZalvaPublisher:
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Category : Orchestral music, Arranged
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Big Parade
Author: John J. MaginnisThe Liberation of Paris
Author: Jean Edward SmithPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501164937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, racing to save the city from destruction. Following their breakout from Normandy in late June 1944, the Allies swept across northern France in pursuit of the German army. The Allies intended to bypass Paris and cross the Rhine into Germany, ending the war before winter set in. But as they advanced, local forces in Paris began their own liberation, defying the occupying German troops. Charles de Gaulle, the leading figure of the Free French government, urged General Dwight Eisenhower to divert forces to liberate Paris. Eisenhower’s advisers recommended otherwise, but Ike wanted to help position de Gaulle to lead France after the war. And both men were concerned about partisan conflict in Paris that could leave the communists in control of the city and the national government. Neither man knew that the German commandant, Dietrich von Choltitz, convinced that the war was lost, schemed to surrender the city to the Allies intact, defying Hitler’s orders to leave it a burning ruin. In The Liberation of Paris, Jean Edward Smith puts “one of the most moving moments in the history of the Second World War” (Michael Korda) in context, showing how the decision to free the city came at a heavy price: it slowed the Allied momentum and allowed the Germans to regroup. After the war German generals argued that Eisenhower’s decision to enter Paris prolonged the war for another six months. Was Paris worth this price? Smith answers this question in a “brisk new recounting” that is “terse, authoritative, [and] unsentimental” (The Washington Post).
Paris on Parade ... With ... Illustrations, Etc
Author: Robert Forrest WilsonThe Greater Journey
Author: David McCulloughPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416576894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”
View Looking Down Onto Parade of French Resistance Fighters and Thousands of Spectators in Paris, France
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Languages : en
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Description: View looking down onto parade of French Resistance fighters and thousands of spectators in Paris, France. Liberation of Paris.
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