The Road Back to Paris - Softcover

Liebling, A. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557781060 ISBN 13: 9781557781062

Publisher: Paragon House, 1988

Synopsis

Essays describe everyday life in wartorn Europe, and depict the experiences of the ordinary American soldier fighting the war

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Review:

For 28 years the work of A. J. Liebling embodied and perfected the personal-experience style of journalism that made the the New Yorker magazine famous. In 1939, the magazine sent Liebling to Europe to report on World War II. He filed dispatches from France, England, and North Africa that brought home to American readers the war's air raids, prisoner-of-war camps, and the emotional realities of life for soldiers and civilians. In 1944, the dispatches Liebling filed were collected and published together in The Road Back to Paris in what has become a classic chronicle of the war and of a "world knocked down."

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ublished in 1944, The Road Back to Paris comprises dispatches from France, England, and North Africa that A. J. Liebling filed with The New Yorker during the Second World War. The magazine sent Liebling to Paris in 1939, hoping that he could replicate in wartime France his brilliant reporting of New York life. Liebling succeeded triumphantly, concentrating on writing the individual soldier's story to illuminate the larger picture of the European theater of the war and the fight for what Liebling felt was the first priority of business: the liberation of his beloved France.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1557781060
• ISBN 13: 9781557781062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300