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Article: Reporting World War Two, 2 vols.
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- The Nation
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- September 18, 1995
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Library of A merica. Part I, 912 pp. Part II, 970pp. $35 each.
In 1940 when the war in Europe was coming very close many people in Paris tried to behave as they always had but often seemed demented. The crush of rumors, mobilization, the deceptive official communiques, the psychic cost of bravura and various delusions were to blame. The New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling found the French quite pugnacious in May of that year. In his article "Paris Postscript," he described going to the races at Auteuil on the day the Germans were taking Arnhem and Maastricht in Holland, and attacking Rotterdam, but people were only concerned with the three-year-old hurdlers and what women ...