Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize - she went on to write fourteen more, of which the best-loved were the five volumes of The Cazalet ...

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and the best company in the world.Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Paddy and his cloest friends as...

For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a stopping place in the long struggle home.The political scene was dominated by the British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson. In February 1942 he surrounded the Abdin Palace with tanks and at...

L’immagine di Elizabeth Jane Howard è associata a quella della femme fatale: l’incedere altero, l’eleganza aristocratica che le donne di ricca estrazione riescono a esibire in ogni circostanza senza risultare fuori luogo. La sua infanzia fu tormentata dalla depressione della madre e dalle molestie da parte del padre, e da giovane cercò la propria emancipazione attraverso la carriera di attrice, ma vide il suo sogno infrangersi con il matrimonio e l’arrivo della guerra. Si diede quindi alla...

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize - she went on to write fourteen more, of which the best-loved were the five volumes of The Cazalet ...

Elizabeth David was born into a upper-class family and pursued a rebellious and bohemian life as a student of art and then an actress in Paris, before running off with a married man to Greece and then settling in Cairo, where she worked for the British government. After the Second World War, she returned to England, where she was shocked by poor food into writing first articles, then books on Meditteranean cooking. A Book of Mediterranean Food was published in 1950, inspiring a co...

Artemis Cooper, en la exhaustiva y a la vez cálida biografía sobre su figura, ha sabido captar perfectamente el espíritu apasionado y el magnético carácter del autor de obras magistrales como El tiempo de los regalos y Entre los bosques y el agua. Siguiendo la estela de Patrick, o Paddy como lo llamaban sus amigos, vivimos de primera mano el ambiente festivo del Londres de entreguerras, somos testigos del valor de los miembros de la resistencia contra los nazis, disfrutam...

Ο βρετανός Πάτρικ Λη Φέρμορ (1915-2011) θεωρείται ο μεγαλύτερος ταξιδιωτικός συγγραφέας της εποχής μας και μια θρυλική φυσιογνωμία που συνέδεσε τη ζωή του με την Ελλάδα.Οι περιπλανήσεις του ξεκινούν από την ηλικία των 18 ετών, το 1933, όταν αντί να ακολουθήσει τη στρατιωτική σταδιοδρομία για την οποία τον προόριζαν, πέρασε τη Μάγχη και ξεκίνησε να διασχίσει την Ευρώπη με τα πόδια, με προορισμό την Κωνσταντινούπολη. Υποκινημένος από την ασίγαστη περιέργειά του για τον κόσμο, πραγματο...

**"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday TelegraphFrom Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem**In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the ...

80e ANNIVERSAIRE DE LA LIBÉRATIONCette histoire s’ouvre dans l’enthousiasme et le sang versé lors de la libération de Paris, à la fin du mois d’août 1944. Elle mêle les attentes des premiers « beaux jours » après quatre années terribles, la fureur des règlements de comptes annonçant l’épuration, les arrangements pour survivre au quotidien dans une économie dévastée et les débuts d’une âpre lutte idéologique pour le pouvoir entre Français, sous l’influence permanente quand ce n’est ...

Beevor y su esposa, Artemis Cooper, nos muestran el París de Beauvoir, de Camus y de Malraux, pero también de Hemingway, de Beckett, de Picasso y de García Márquez. Un libro excepcional a partir de documentos oficiales, archivos privados y memorias personales de los protagonistas de aquellos inolvidables años de optimismo y de esperanza.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Paris After the Liberation by Antony Beevor, read by Sean Barrett.Antony Beevor's Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949 is a remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944Post-liberation Paris: an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the t...