Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944

Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Guéhenno''s Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Caroli...