A dramatic chronicle of the fall of one of the world's great cities covers the five weeks leading up to the German capture of Paris in 1940

The Fall of Paris: June 1940

History

LOTTMAN, HERBERT R.

Military

Harpercollins

Following the liberation of Normandy in 1944 and for six years afterwards, France was convulsed by a savage purge of all those who had collaberated - or were suspected of collaborting - with the Nazi occupation. This book tells the extraordinary and controversial story of this episode in post war Frances' history.

People's Anger

RH Canada UK Dist

Lottman's Albert Camus was the first and remains the definitive biography -- even in France. John Leonard, New York Times: "What emerges from Mr. Lottman's tireless devotions is a portrait of the artist, the outsider, the humanist and skeptic, that breaks the heart." John Sturrock, The New York Times Book Review: Herbert Lottman's life (of Camus) is the first to be written, either in French or English, and it is exhaustive, a labor of love and of wonderful industry."This new edition includes a specially written preface by the author revealing the challenges of a biographer, of some of the problems that had to be dealt with while writing the book and after it appeared.

Albert Camus: A Biography

Literature & Fiction

Wiedenfeld and Nicolson

Draws on unpublished correspondence between the renowned science fiction author and various friends and family members, and recreates Verne's life from his youth in Nantes to his self-imposed exile outside of Paris as an adult

Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St Martins Pr

Using previously unavailable material and unexpurgated correspondence, the author presents a picture of the first modern writer, detailing his relationship with his mother, his romantic life, his various illnesses, and his creative literary work

Flaubert: A Biography

History & Criticism

Little,Brown & Co

The remarkable life of the legendary Colette (1873-1953) writer, stage performer, heartbreaker (of both men and women), and center of Parisian social life for 50 years. Lots of great photographs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Colette: A Life

Community & Culture

The myth of Albert Camus -- his person,political and artistic legacy -- has served to confuse and distort the facts of his brief, remarkable life. Lottman has written a definitive biography of the writer, a full-scale work incorporating interviews with those who knew Camus best -- his family and closest friends, his literary peers, his admirers and his enemies.

DOUBLEDAY COMPANY

This story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the Nazis, much of the thinking world sought guidance from this extraordinary group of intellectuals. Herbert Lottman's chronicle follows the influential playersâ€”Gide, Malraux, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Koestler, Camus, and their pro-Fascist counterpartsâ€”through the German occupation, Liberation, and into the Cold War, when the struggle between superpowers all but drowned out their voices. "Surprisingly fresh and intense. . . . A retrospective travelogue of the Left Bank in the days when it was the setting for almost all French intellectual activity. . . . Absorbing."â€”Naomi Bliven, New Yorker "As an introduction to a period in French history already legendary, The Left Bank is superb."â€”Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "An intellectual history. A history of the interaction between politics and letters. And a rumination on the limitless credulity of intellectuals."â€”Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman

The Left Bank: Writers, artists, and politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War

Europe

Houghton/Mifflin

London: Heinemann

An award-winning biographer's penetrating portrait of the most glamorous branch of the international family, the one that came to prominence under Napoleon, and has ever since been locked in a turbulent relationship with that country. Of the many books written about the Rothschilds, this is the first to focus so closely on the French branch--perhaps the most fascinating side of this astonishing family. 8-page black-and-white inserts.

The French Rothschilds: The Great Banking Dynasty Through Two Turbulent Centuries

Crown

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The Fall of Paris: June 1940

People's Anger

Albert Camus: A Biography

Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography

Flaubert: A Biography

Colette: A Life

Albert Camus: A Biography

The Left Bank: Writers, artists, and politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War

The Left Bank: Writers, artists, and politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War

The French Rothschilds: The Great Banking Dynasty Through Two Turbulent Centuries