Description: David Drake chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during WWII, drawing on diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these years. From his account emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city and the contingent lives of resisters, collaborators, occupiers, and victims who, unlike us, could not know how the story would end.
Brief description: David Drake has taught at universities in London and Paris and has published widely on French intellectual and cultural history.
Review Quotes: A fascinating, quick-paced, and moving history with a strong narrative. Drake's Paris at War is the product of thorough and far-reaching research and sensitive interpretation.--Rod Kedward, author of France and the French: A Modern History