Publication

1997-04-01 - Modern Library

Language

English

Word Count

117,000 words, Guess

Page Count

468 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL7699627M
  • ISBN-139780679602484
  • ISBN-100679602488
  • OCLC Control Number35990279
  • Library of Congress Control Number96049633
and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1110903
  • Goodreads220477

Classifications

  • LCCD811.5.L53 1997

Description

"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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