A jolly liberation? No, Paris in 1944 seethed with lust and violence
From a drunken Hemingway to reprisals against ‘collaboratrices horizontales’, Patrick Bishop offers a gripping account of de Gaulle’s return
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From a drunken Hemingway to reprisals against ‘collaboratrices horizontales’, Patrick Bishop offers a gripping account of de Gaulle’s return
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