Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 - Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris

Zusatztext [A] significant book, now made accessible to an anglophone audience in what is a powerful translation. ... [Diary of the Dark Years] is a rewarding work worth savouring slowly, as you dip into the life and mind of Jean Guéhenno. Informationen zum Autor Jean Guéhenno was a French writer and intellectual.; David Ball is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Smith College. Klappentext The first English translation of the most quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France during WWII. Translated and annotated by David Ball. Zusammenfassung Diary of the Dark Years is a sharply observed record of day-to-day life in occupied Paris, but far more: it is "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Wall Street Journal), expressing both shame at French collaboration with the Nazis and the stubborn resistance of an intellectual under great pressure.

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• Authors: (1890-1978) French Writer Jean Guehenno, Jean Guehenno, Jean ((1890-1978) French Writer) Guehenno, Jean-Marie Guehenno, Jean Guéhenno
• Assisted by: David Ball (Editor), David Ball (Translation), David (Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature Ball (Translation), Ball David (Translation), David Ball (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9780190495848
• ISBN: 978-0-19-049584-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; France, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Autobiography: historical, political and military, Modern warfare, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater