And The Show Went On

by Alan Riding

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On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. While the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged, and soon a peculiar kind of normalcy returned as theaters, opera houses, movie theaters, and nightclubs reopened for business. Shedding light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma.

  • ISBN10 0715640674
  • ISBN13 9780715640678
  • Publish Date 24 March 2011 (first published 19 October 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Duckworth Overlook
  • Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 412
  • Language English