Paris After the Liberation

Outstanding. Enormously enjoyable to read - exciting, lively, funny, and admirably tolerant and objective in its opinions. It is hard to see how it could have been better done

Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph

Held me gripped by every page and I was impatient at any interruption. The details of this book are spellbinding, often frightening and sometimes funny

Alec Guinness, Daily Mail

Skilfully balances historical narrative with social analysis, and tempering the appalling with the absurd

Jan Morris, Independent

This book, like the city it discusses, oscillates satisfyingly between blunt history and roistering gossip

Frank Delaney, Sunday Express

A rich and intriguing story which the authors disentangle with great skill

Piers Paul Read, Sunday Telegraph