Eleven Days in August:The Liberation of Paris in 1944

Description

The liberation of Paris was a momentous point in 20th-century history| yet it is now largely forgotten outside France.
‘Eleven Days in August’ is a pulsating hour-by-hour reconstruction of the tumultuous events that shaped the final phase of the war and the future of France| told with the pace of a thriller.
While examining the conflicting national and international interests that played out in the bloody street fighting| it tells of how| in eleven dramatic days| people lived| fought and died in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.