The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944

✍ Scribed by Neiberg, Michael

• Book ID: 108041401
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780465033034

✦ Synopsis

In The Blood of Free Men , acclaimed historian Michael S. Neiberg provides a thrilling new history of the Liberation of Paris, showing how a host of brave fighters, commanders, and officials saved the city and, in the process, shaped the outcome of World War II.

The Liberation of Paris was a chaotic, complex operation that could have easily ended in the city's ruin. Paris was only spared from being turned into a rubble-heap thanks to the efforts of a complex network of players, some of whom seemed to be working against each other. While the Allied Forces largely ignored Paris (focusing instead on reaching Germany), the French themselves were deeply divided. French political cells competed for control of the Resistance within Paris. Outside the city, Charles de Gaulle and his Free French Forces aimed to direct the Resistance and establish themselves at the head of France upon its liberation.

Determined to stop these fragmented forces was the occupying German army,...