Za svobodnou Paříž - Obsazení, odboj, osvobození 1940-1944 – Dugard Martin (2024)

A gripping account of the battle for Paris over the four years of World War II, a story that is both broadly sweeping and deeply personal, about heroism, the desire for freedom, and sacrifice for the right cause. ***** May 1940. Hitler's armies invaded France, and the world was once again stunned by the audacious, devastating blitzkrieg that culminated in the capture of Paris. The attacked country collapsed within weeks, and its metropolis, the "City of Lights" promised to intellectuals and artists, revered for its atmosphere of carefreeness and free-spiritedness, found itself under Nazi domination. ***** The occupiers unleashed terror, against which a patriotic resistance began to form. More than one hundred twenty thousand Parisians fell victim to the Nazis, countless others passed through Gestapo prisons and ended up in concentration camps. The longer the enemy held the city in its grip, the greater the threat loomed over its inhabitants. They had only one hope left: the invasion of Normandy, which had been intensively prepared by the British and Americans for many months. ***** But it was primarily some of the greatest figures of this wartime era who held the fate of the French capital in their hands from the very beginning. Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George S. Patton, and Charles de Gaulle,…