Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition)

Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper

Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning...

The Devil in the Flesh

Raymond Radiguet

With a new Introduction by Fay WeldonAs the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and the young wife of a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks. When she receiv...