This story was well researched by the authors including interviews with General von Choltitz, Hitler’s commanding officer, and General Dwight Eisenhower, Chief of Operations in Europe. It looks at the real lives of the citizens of Paris as well as the soldiers who gave their lives to fight for their freedom. In the book, Is Paris Burning, Collins and LaPierre write a fascinating narrative of how Paris escaped the annihilation planned by Hitler at the end of WWII. This city now belonged to him and his beloved Germany.

From this vantage point, he surveyed the Champs de Mars, the Seine, The Eiffel Tower, Napoleon’s Tomb and the Notre Dame Cathedral.

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.On June 24, 1940, Adolf Hitler rode into Paris and stopped at the Trocedero. Is Paris Burning? is researched with meticulous and riveting detail, well narrated, and certain to keep you intrigued.'' - AudioFile ''You will be moved by the descriptions and want to see Paris to witness what history allowed to survive. Exciting, stirring, skillfully dramatized, meticulously documented.'' - Saturday Review Syndicate ''One of the most dramatic stories of World War II. ''Dramatic.Hundreds of characters are introduced to lend color and authenticity.'' - Christian Science Monitor ''One of the great cliff-hangers of all time.Heart-stopping!'' - Life We are directly aware of the tension, suspense, and irony of the experience.'' - Los Angeles Times 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 mounting action is as powerful as it must have been to the participants. Dramatic, exciting, and intensely human.'' - New York Times They have not only written history but an exciting thriller.'' -Art Buchwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist ''Thanks to the authors, we can live every dramatic moment again.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Here they re-create the drama, the fervor, and the triumph that heralded one of the most dramatic events of our time. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs, in meticulous and riveting detail, the network of fateful events - day by day, moment by moment - that saved the City of Light.īestselling authors and renowned journalists Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre spent three years researching this book, drawing on French Resistance radio messages, German military records, countless interviews, and secret correspondence between de Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. ''Is Paris burning?'' is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city.įew moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly - and how miraculously - the city escaped Hitler's secret plan to reduce it to ashes.

Is Paris Burning? by Larry Collins