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The Road Back to Paris / A. J. Liebling.
LIBRA - Blank Collection D811.5 .L53 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph), 1904-1963.
- Series:
- Tesoro books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph), 1904-1963.
- Liebling, A. J.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War correspondents--United States--Biography.
- War correspondents.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 300 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Paragon House Publishers, 1988.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Raymond Sokolov
- Book I. The World Knocked Down. I. The Shape of War; II. Reflections in a Cul-de-sac; III. Toward Paris: 1939; IV. My Generals, My Generalissimo; V. Bajus Disappointed; VI. Vire Revisited; VII. Merry Christmas, Horrid New Year; VIII. Colonel Albatross; IX. Sample Supermen; X. The Knockdown: Paris Postscript; XI. Who Do Not Fight, But Run Away; XII. A Man Falling Downstairs; XIII. Once Down Is No Battle
- Book II. The World On One Knee. I. No Place Like It; II. Rape is Impossible; III. Destination: United Kingdom; IV. Non Angeli Sed Angli; V. It Showed Nice Instincts; VI. The Long Name for the Lifeboat; VII. Rosie, You Be'ave Yourself; VIII. Dev's Double; IX. They Are Not Gone; X. Westbound Tanker
- Book III. The World Gets Up. I. Toward a Happy Ending; II. Birds of My Country; III. What Do You Think That Bugle's Blowing For?; IV. The Hat of M. Murphy; V. Giraud Is Just a Generl; VI. The Foamy Fields; VII. First Act of Gafsa; VIII. Gafsa Revisited; IX. Under the Acacias.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1944.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- ISBN:
- 1557781060 (paper) :
- OCLC:
- 16833455
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