During World War II, many ancient and picturesque cities were reduced to piles of ruins under a "scorched-earth policy." "Is Paris burning?" was a question that Hitler bitterly put to his Chief of the General Staff on the day of the liberation of Paris in 1944. Facing the great danger that the city’s glorious architecture and art treasures might be burnt to the ground, how did resistance groups and the Allies react? This book will give you a real and vivid description of the history of Paris's fight for liberation.