Shortly before 3:00 P.M. Pacific War Time in Paris, the square before the Paris Opera House filled with war-weary Parisians and American and French soldiers, waiting to hear what they could only hope to be true. At 3:01 P.M. Emil Edgren, Army Photographer, was in the square and captured that moment of history when General Charles deGaulle's voice came booming over the loudspeakers, "The war in Europe is over " His following words were lost in the shouts and cheers of the gathered crowd. This book is a pictorial history of what happened to a war-torn country following that historical...
Shortly before 3:00 P.M. Pacific War Time in Paris, the square before the Paris Opera House filled with war-weary Parisians and American and French...