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 players—Gide, Malraux, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Koestler, Camus, and their pro-Fascist counterparts—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."—Naomi Bliven, New Yorker "As an introduction to a period in French history already legendary, The Left Bank is superb."—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."—Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman

The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War

History

LOTTMAN, Herbert

Americas

University of Chicago Press

Flaubert a Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Colette

Secker & Warburg, 1991, London

Biography of Marceal Philippe petain, World War I French General and head of the Vichy France government ac the defeat to the Nazis in 1940

Petain Hero or Traitor: The Untold Story

Morrow

Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

This is the remarkable story of how two brothers - Edouard and Andre Michelin - turned a sleepy, family tyre firm in the heart of rural France into one of the most innovative and successful industrial empires in the world. Edouard, a landscape painter at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, displayed an engineering genius for tyre-making and product innovation, whilst Andre, trained as an engineer, displayed a creative genius for advertising and marketing. Together they kick-started the world motor industry and created a tourist industry around the motor car and their now legendary "Michelin Guides". The Michelin history, as described here by Herbert Lottman, reveals insights into the development of this remarkable business.

The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire

I.B.Tauris

Le Théâtre de la mode (French Edition)

Reference

Garfinkel, Stanley

Gasc, Nadine

Charles-Roux, Edmonde

Seidn

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Du May

Gustave Flaubert (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Literature

Tusquets Editores S.A.

La Rive Gauche (Spanish Edition)

El 10 de mayo de 1940, Adolf Hitler lanzo su esperada ofensiva contra Francia ; en poco mas de un mes, los alemanes desfilaban bajo el Arco de Triunfo. Mientras Churchill y Reynaud, De Gaulle y Petain examinaban febrilmente si debian o no abandonar la capital, o mas bien negociar un armisticio, los parisinos pasaban de la despreocupacion al panico, y huian en tropel dejando la ciudad practicamente deshabitada. Asi como ya se habia contado lo que se conoce por «la batalla de Francia», nadie antes que Lottman habia reconstruido la Blitzkrieg (la «guerra relampago»), vista desde el interior de Paris, tal como vivieron, dia tras dia, casi hora tras hora, tanto los hombres de Estado y sus generales, los intelectuales y los periodistas, como, a medida que los notables abandonaban la ciudad, el hombre de la calle que no disponia de los medios para escapar. Pese a la meticulosa fidelidad a los hechos o, tal vez, gracias a ellos, esta cronica en forma de diario se lee con la misma avidez que una novela de suspense.

La caída de París: 14 de junio de 1940 (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

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