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The road back to Paris

Title
The road back to Paris / A.J. Liebling.
Author
Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph), 1904-1963.
Publication
New York : Modern Library, 1997.

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Description
viii, 468 pages; 19 cm
Summary
  • "Originally published in 1944, The Road Back to Paris comprises dispatches from France, England, and North Africa that A. J. Liebling filed with The New Yorker during the Second World War. The magazine sent Liebling to Paris in 1939, hoping that he could replicate in wartime France his brilliant reporting of New York life.
  • Liebling succeeded triumphantly, concentrating on writing the individual soldier's story to illuminate the larger picture of the European theater of the war and the fight for what Liebling felt was the first priority of business: the liberation of his beloved France." "Despite his ill health and bad eyesight, Liebling went on patrol, interviewed soldiers, fled Paris and returned after D-Day, was shot at in North Africa and bombed in the blitz in London."--BOOK JACKET.
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Note
  • Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1944.
ISBN
0679602488 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96049633
OCLC
  • 35990279
  • ocm35990279
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries