Artemis Cooper

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 known 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,...

A remarkable historical account of the celebration and chaos that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944. Post-liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel...