Artemis Cooper: 6 books

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally...

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction....

**"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday Telegraph From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem** In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor...

A l'occasion du 70e anniversaire de la Libération de Paris, voici l'histoire de sa renaissance entre 1944 et 1949 par l'un des tous meilleurs historiens de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, capable de toucher un public des plus larges. La libération de Paris s'ouvre dans l'enthousiasme, et le sang....

Beevor y su esposa, Artemis Cooper, nos muestran el París de Beauvoir, de Camus y de Malraux, pero también de Hemingway, de Beckett, de Picasso y de García Márquez. Un libro excepcional a partir de documentos oficiales, archivos privados y memorias personales de los protagonistas de aquellos inolvidables años de optimismo y de esperanza.

For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was...