The War A Memoir Author:Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray (Translator) In Nazi-occupied France during WW II, Duras (The Lovers; Hiroshima, Mon Amour) was a major figure in the Resistance. During the chaos attending the liberation of Paris in 1944 she wrote a diary hitherto unpublished and long-forgotten by her which forms the opening and major segment of this shor... more »t, memorable book. Here, unrevised, in vivid staccato prose that sears with its emotion, is an account of her agonized waiting at the Gare d'Orsay and elsewhere for the arrival of her husband, Robert L., who (she learned from Resistance contacts including "Morland," in actuality Francois Mitterrand), was among newly liberated POWs found in Belsen and other death camps. That Robert L. arrived home more dead than alive proved devastating to Duras; it will strike readers no less powerfully. This volume, which includes with the diary war recollections treated as stories and an account about a Gestapo agent in Paris, rates a special place among WW II memoirs.« less
This is well-translated and provides insight into the lives of the French in 1944, as the Nazi Occupation is being forced out & the Allies are advancing through the country. An interesting perspective not often seen by Americans.