Eleven Days in August

''I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation in war. But I had reckoned without the liberation of Paris - I had reckoned without remembering that I might be a part of that richly historic day. We were in Paris on the first day - one of the great days of all time.'' (Ernie Pyle, US war correspondent)

The liberation of Paris was a momentous point in twentieth-century history, y...