178. Battleground '44 - The Liberation of Paris

Battleground

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4.6 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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With the Allied armies now in France, the fate of Paris and it's inhabitants was in the air, for many residents, even those who had so far co-operated or even actively helped the occupying Germans, had tough decisions to make - keep their heads down or rise up. In this episode Patrick and Saul speak live from the Chalke History festival, taking the story of Paris onwards from where it was left last week, to its liberation in august 1944. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.7	What follows is the second part of a two-part series on Patrick's new book, Paris 44, which was recorded live at the Chalk Valley History
0:56.9	Festival. I hope you enjoy. Thank you to this inaugural battleground live, first time we've ever
1:04.3	spoken in public. I mean, some of you probably don't even know what we look like. You've heard us
1:08.7	on the podcast. You may not even have heard the podcast, but here we are. It's quite exciting, actually, because if this goes well,
1:15.3	no pressure, there may be more of this. We're planning to do a USA tour, I think, along the lines
1:20.8	of the rest of this history at some stage, John McPo. That's right. World Tour, I thought we
1:24.0	have lined up on. One step at a time. We may do some local events in the UK first.
1:29.7	Although this is live to you guys, this is actually going to go out probably in a couple of weeks,
1:33.9	and it's going to be the second of two podcasts on Patrick's fabulous new book, which you can see here,
1:39.5	Paris 44. We've already recorded the first half, and it's really the story of Paris during the occupation from Hitler arriving, of course, in June 1940 to just before D-Day.
1:52.3	That's where we've left it in the first episode.
1:54.2	And when this episode goes out on Battleground 44, it will of course follow immediately from that.
1:59.6	It helps, I think, for Patrick, who, unlike me,
2:03.7	just a military historian, I've usually worked through the theory of war, never actually
2:07.7	been to war myself. Patrick, as most of you will know, has done both very successfully in both cases.
2:14.4	He was for many years a foreign correspondent covering conflicts as diverse as,
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