War Diaries keyword-terrorists Kingsley Martin

Kingsley Martin

original and iconoclastic

which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war

This third volume of the trilogy

War Diaries keyword-terrorists Kingsley MartinDuring the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often