Is Paris Burning? First Edition Edition

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Review ------ ''Thanks to the authors, we can live every dramatic moment again. They have not only written history but an exciting thriller.'' --Art Buchwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist ''A great story . . . Dramatic, exciting, and intensely human.'' --New York Times ''The most readable book of the year . . . it is a measure of the accomplishment, that knowing the end of the story as all of us do, we are still so immersed that the ing action is as powerful as it must have been to the participants. We are directly aware of the tension, suspense, and irony of the experience.'' --Los Angeles Times ''Extraordinary…Absorbing.'' --Time ''One of the great cliff-hangers of all time…Heart-stopping!'' --Life ''Dramatic…Hundreds of characters are introduced to lend color and authenticity.'' --Christian Science Monitor ''One of the most dramatic stories of World War II . . . Exciting, stirring, skillfully dramatized, meticulously documented.'' --Saturday Review Syndicate ''You will be moved by the descriptions and want to see Paris to witness what history allowed to survive. Is Paris Burning? is researched with meticulous and riveting detail, well narrated, and certain to keep you intrigued.'' --AudioFile --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) About the Author ---------------- LARRY COLLINS (1929-2005) was born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, and is a graduate of Yale University. He was for more than ten years a foreign correspondent in North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, first for UPI and then for Newsweek, for which he was Paris Bureau chief. DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE was for many years senior reporter and editor for Paris Match. He is the author of several earlier books published in France, some of them based on his knowledge of the United States, where he attended Lafayette College and where his her served with the French diplomatic service. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) See all Editorial Reviews ( /dp/product-description/0785812466/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&isInIframe=0 )