Richard Cobb
Praise for French and Germans, Germans and French
Richard Cobb is a visionary. His books will take you on an extraordinary intellectual and emotional journey.
The New York Review of Books
His France - urban, northern, provincial, pedestrian, noisy, unpuritanical, festive - was in contrast to, and predicated upon, another France: bureaucratic, official, suburban, safe, rule - crazy, scared.
Julian Barnes
Cobb was a true historian of life 'from below', using archival evidence to bring alive the reality - and the suffering - of ordinary people's existence.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New Statesman
Richard Cobb is a visionary. His books will take you on an extraordinary intellectual and emotional journey.
The New York Review of Books
His France - urban, northern, provincial, pedestrian, noisy, unpuritanical, festive - was in contrast to, and predicated upon, another France: bureaucratic, official, suburban, safe, rule - crazy, scared.
Julian Barnes
Cobb was a true historian of life 'from below', using archival evidence to bring alive the reality - and the suffering - of ordinary people's existence.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New Statesman
Richard Cobb is a visionary. His books will take you on an extraordinary intellectual and emotional journey.
The New York Review of Books
His France - urban, northern, provincial, pedestrian, noisy, unpuritanical, festive - was in contrast to, and predicated upon, another France: bureaucratic, official, suburban, safe, rule - crazy, scared.
Julian Barnes
Cobb was a true historian of life 'from below', using archival evidence to bring alive the reality - and the suffering - of ordinary people's existence.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New Statesman