Such harsh choices lie at the heart of Paris ’44, Patrick Bishop’s fascinating account of the liberation of Paris. On April 28 1944, thousands of French people gathered in the city centre to ...

But it’s an especially inapt way to describe the initiation of a trade war. The liberation of Paris marked an end to hostilities, not their beginning. To whatever extent August 1944 was about ...

Patrick Bishop, acclaimed historian and author of bestsellers about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War (“Fighter Boys” and “Bomber Boys”), longtime foreign correspondent, and ...