An intense first-hand account of the final days of World War II in Paris — the occupation, the resistance, and the final liberation. The military details are balanced with personal accounts. Exciting story of how senior officers of the Wehrmacht disobeyed a direct order from Hitler to burn Paris to the ground rather than allow it to be liberated as an open city. Later made into a movie‪ starring ‬Gore Vidal; Francis Ford Coppola; Larry Collins; Dominique Lapierre; Leslie Caron; Charles Boyer; Jean-Poul Belmondo; Kirk Douglas; Glenn Ford; Alain Delon; Anthony Perkins