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History from the City’s Heart

The British-born, US-educated historian Gregor Dallas has taken a break from writing about how nations at war manage the difficult transition to peace – the subject of his earlier ‘War and Peace Trilogy’ – and gives free rein to his fondness for recounting littleknown anecdotes or well-known stories viewed from a fresh and startling perspective.
He chooses twelve episodes rooted in the history and scenery of Paris and connects them with as many stops on the metro. The connections seem far-fetched at times, but no matter – the stories are good and Dallas brings them and their setting alive. He’s the kind of storyteller who keeps darting off on what seem to be tangents but eventually turn out to be threads in a pattern that makes sense when viewed as a whole.