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  title info:
    title: Paris at the end of the world
    sub title: the City of Light during the Great War, 1914-1918
  name:
    name part: Baxter, John
    name part: 1939-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 402 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
  abstract: 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.
  note: John Baxter.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  subject:
    geographic: Paris (France)
    topic: History
    temporal: 1870-1940
  classification: D524.7.F8 B39 2014
  classification: 944.3610814
  identifier: 9780062221407 (pbk.)
  identifier: 006222140X (pbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 140107
    record change date: 20200305075404.0
    record identifier: in00003456553
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng