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Synopsis
El 10 de mayo de 1940, Adolf Hitler lanzó su esperada ofensiva contra Francia ; en poco más de un mes, los alemanes desfilaban bajo el Arco de Triunfo. Mientras Churchill y Reynaud, De Gaulle y Pétain examinaban febrilmente si debían o no abandonar la capital, o más bien negociar un armisticio, los parisinos pasaban de la despreocupación al pánico, y huían en tropel dejando la ciudad prácticamente deshabitada. Así como ya se había contado lo que se conoce por «la batalla de Francia», nadie antes que Lottman había reconstruido la Blitzkrieg (la «guerra relámpago» ), vista desde el interior de París , tal como vivieron, día tras día , casi hora tras hora, tanto los hombres de Estado y sus generales, los intelectuales y los periodistas, como, a medida que los notables abandonaban la ciudad, el hombre de la calle que no disponía de los medios para escapar. Pese a la meticulosa fidelidad a los hechos ―o, tal vez, gracias a ellos―, esta crónica en forma de diario se lee con la misma avidez que una novela de suspense .
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About the Author
Herbert R. Lottman is international correspondent for Publishers Weekly.
From Publishers Weekly
The biographer of Flaubert, Colette, Petain and Camus here delivers an engrossing narrative account of one of the most traumatizing events of WW II. With a sharp eye for irony and incongruity, Lottman depicts the darkening of the City of Light during a notably lovely springtime as the German army approached and as rumors ran rampant--for instance, that German agents disguised as beggars, blind men, nuns and wounded French soldiers had infiltrated the city. The chronicle is rich in emotion and incident, with Lottman, Publishers Weekly 's European correspondent, relating the somber story largely as experienced by men and women who were there: then-colonel Charles de Gaulle, who commanded one of the few French units that stood and fought; high-school teacher Simone de Beauvoir, fretting over the fate of her soldier-lover Jean-Paul Sartre, on the Maginot Line; U.S. ambassador William Bullitt, rambunctious and self-dramatizing but also very courageous; and many other individuals, French and foreign, as they reacted to the national and personal crisis. Illustrated.
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(Subject: World War II - Western Europe) A dramatic account of the fall of one of the world's great cities in 1940 to the German conquerors. The author recounts the experiences of those who were there, how the "Enigma/Ultra" secrets were saved, and the atomic secrets that were kept from the Nazis. (Published: 1992) (Publisher: Sinclair-Stephenson) (ISBN: 1856191753) (Pagination: xii + 430pp, 26 ills, 4 maps, index) (Condition: very good in d/w.) UL-XXXXXX. Seller Inventory # 13978-01
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The Fall of Paris June 1940
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