Paris at the end of the world: the city of light during the Great War, 1914 - 1918
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. During World War I, the terrifying sounds of the nearby front could be heard from inside the French capital; Germany's "Paris Gun" and enem...
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| Zusammenfassung: | A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. During World War I, the terrifying sounds of the nearby front could be heard from inside the French capital; Germany's "Paris Gun" and enemy aviators routinely bombarded the city. And yet in its darkest hour, the City of Light blazed more brightly than ever. Its taxis shuttled troops to the front; its great railway stations received reinforcements from across the world; its grand museums and cathedrals housed the wounded; and the Eiffel Tower hummed at all hours, relaying messages to and from the trenches. At night, Parisians lived with urgency and without inhibition, embracing the lush and the libertine. The rich hosted parties that depleted their wine cellars of the finest vintages. Artists such as Pablo Picasso achieved new creative heights. And the war brought a wave of foreigners to the city for the first time, including Ernest Hemingway and Baxter's own grandfather, Archie, whose diaries he uses to reconstruct a soldier's-eye view of the war years |
| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 402 S. Ill. 18 cm |
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Prologue
1.
TWO MEN IN SILK PAJAMAS
2.
AN ICE CREAM WAR
3.
POETRY AND PITY
4.
JEAN
5.
CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS
6.
TAXI!
7.
THE TASTE OF
TRANSITORINESS
14
19
29
39
45
57
8.
HAS ANYBODY SEEN ARCHIE?
66
9.
THE PHOTOGRAPH
71
10.
STRANGERS IN PARADISE
79
11.
MEETING AT PLANE CORNER
87
•
vii
Contents
12. MASTER
OF WAR
92
13.
W
H Y A
WA R ? 98
14.
ARCHIE AGONISTES
106
15.
THE CALL TO ARMS
112
16.
THEY KNEW
121
17.
BUT WE THINK
YOU OUGHT TO GO
129
18.
THE WAR TO END WARS INC.
141
19.
G DAY, DIGGER!
163
20.
DIE
FRÄULEIN 175
21.
THE SCHOLAR
185
22.
ON THE SECRET SHELF
194
23.
ARCHIE UNDER ARMS
201
24.
DRESSED TO KILL
207
25.
MISERY HILL
220
26.
BEDSIDE MANNER
229
27.
THE WAY TO KISS A MARY
241
•
Vili
*
Contents
28.
THE CURE FOR COCKROACH
258
29.
BLIGHTY
267
30.
DANCING BETWEEN
THE FLAMES
282
31.
I LOVE A PARADE!
289
32.
EVERY NIGHT
SOMETHING AWFUL
300
33.
THE SAMMIES
310
34.
THINGS THAT GO BUMP
IN THE NIGHT
321
35.
THE BEDS IN THE WEST
330
36.
MACHINES
339
37.
THE ZOUAVE S TROUSERS
345
38.
THE STARS AND
STRIPES FOREVER
353
39.
THE CITY OF DARKNESS
364
Epilogue
378
Acknowledgments
384
Index
387
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