By Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins
"'Is Paris burning?' was once a query that Hitler many times placed to his commander within the French capitol in the course of August 1944. therefore starts off the soaking up account of the liberation of Paris. you can be moved by way of the descriptions and need to work out Paris to witness what background allowed to outlive. Is Paris Burning? is researched with meticulous and riveting aspect, good narrated and sure to maintain you intrigued."
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Even on that summer day only a few weak shafts of sunlight filtered through the fir forest shrouding the Wolfsschanze. Hands clasped behind their backs, the two men paced the little lawn next to the bunker, waiting for the sign that would summon them to Hitler's presence. As they walked, Burgdorf gestured at a few of the charred ruins still left from the bomb plot. Choltitz knew enough not to question Burgdorf too deeply about his visit. But he did ask him one question. Why, he wondered, had he been chosen for Gross Paris?
The loss of the city would lead to the loss of the entire coastal plain north of the Seine and would deprive us of our rocket-launching sites for the long-distance war against England. In all history, the loss of Paris has inevitably brought with it the loss of all France. The Führer therefore categorically reaffirms his order: Paris must at all costs be defended by locking the city inside a strong position. He reminds the Commander in Chief of the West that reinforcements have been designated for this purpose.
And a tangle of white wooden signs had sprouted like beanstalks in the place de l'Opéra, before the wicker chairs of the Café de la Paix. Their black-lettered arms pointed German drivers to such un-Gallic destinations as DER MILITÄRBI FEHLSHABER IN FRANKREICH, GENERAL DER LUFTWAFFE, and HAUPTVERKEHRSDIREKTION PARIS. That summer a new one had been added. Its wording cheered the Parisians who passed it. It read ZUR NORMANDIE FRONT. Never had the city's wide boulevards been so empty. There were no buses.