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The “Is Paris Burning” is a very good book about WW2. Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins are the authors of this book. It is very well detailed from the very beginning to its end. The end result is that the Nazi general in charge saw the true facts that Germany would lose the war and that it would be an aberration of war to destroy such a historic and monumental city of all ages. The reader found it to be a thrilling account of events occurring over a very brief period that led to Paris’ liberation just in the nick of time not unblemished, however, as it caught some bombing in the northeast area, and Old Paris suffered some limited but significant explosive damage. It was frightening to realize that the factionalism of the French Resistance itself could have proved very fatal to huge numbers of city residents. That aspect was a nail-biter in and of itself. The whole Nazi thing was mind-blowing. And had it not been for the refusal of Dietrich von Cholitz, the general in charge of Paris, to become a scapegoat of history, he would have had his wish. The Nazis had mined all the bridges in Paris and all of the famous landmarks (The Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral), and all it would have taken to decimate the city was the order from von Cholitz.