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A brand new edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France. Arthur Koestler is now an essential part of the English literary landscape both as political activist, controversialist and the author of Darkness at Noon. He stands beside George Orwell as one of the key writers of the twentieth century who embraced communism but would later turn against the "party"and denounce the tragic distortions and abuses that had betrayed the great vision.
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At the beginning of WWII, Jewish-Hungarian novelist Arthur Koestler (author of Darkness at Noon was detained by French authorities and held for several months in a camp for resident aliens. In the months immediately following his escape to England, he wrote this account of his personal survival and his observations of the collapse of the French det
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This is one of the great stories of the era during 1939 and 1950 in France.
It gives a good picture of the situation of the non Frenchman, either as refugee and the French before the outbreak of WW II. Then also the chaos when the German troops entered and the later Vichy government.
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It gives a good picture of the situation of the non Frenchman, either as refugee and the French before the outbreak of WW II. Then also the chaos when the German troops entered and the later Vichy government.
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...and it works as a memoir, too!
13. August 2002
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Arthur Koestler's memoir about his experiences during the beginning of the Second World War is interesting from a historical standpoint. Koestler finds himself all over Europe, in and out of internment camps, encountering people from all over of all classes. Koestler's experience is interesting because the way he was treated was not the norm, it was the product of his unique background and situation, but it still represents the wide range of possible experiences during this historically uncertain time. The level that it succeeds on most, however, is a personal one. Koestler is a damn witty, talented author, who knows how to tell a story. Despite the subject matter he finds much work with. One can't help but smile at he way he describes the inbreed locals of a small village or the way he personifies his car. As interesting as the historical and stylistic elements is his description of himself (clearly a flawed man with a drinking problem) and his unlikely relationship with a younger woman he wasn't meant to end up with. It may be a comparatively obscure piece of literature, but it's certainly one worth reading.
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The true story of French concentration camps
7. Oktober 1997
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The true story of Arthur Koestlers experiences in France immediately before the invasion by Germany. This is a shocking story of a France that we do not hear about in contemporary accounts of WWII. With Germany poised to invade France and nothing that the French could do to stop them the French government decided to appease their new rulers by arresting all refugees from Nazi Europe and putting them into French Concentration camps. Arthur Koester ,a political writer, was one of these refugees that thought he was safe in Paris is a country that was still free of Nazi rule but was soon to find otherwise. His story tells of the French camps where conditions were worse than anything the Nazis were doing and the only way out was bribery and friends in high places. Once released he was still unable to leave the country and the story takes another twist when he discovers that the only way to escape is to enlist in the French Foreign Legion, first of all spending a year in the Italian mountains where his unit was
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9. März 2006
ONE of the greatest books to come out of the second world war now carries a tragic irony. The reverberations of its author's suicide in 1983 spill over into one's reading of it.
In 1939, Koestler was living in the South of France working on Darkness At Noon. Moving to Paris to enlist with the Allies he was, along with thousands of others who had fought Fascism around Europe, imprisoned as an undesirable alien. Life in the camp, which German emigres testified to being comparable with Dachau, is illuminated by a writer whose humanity, optimism and intelligence shine on every page.
In 1939, Koestler was living in the South of France working on Darkness At Noon. Moving to Paris to enlist with the Allies he was, along with thousands of others who had fought Fascism around Europe, imprisoned as an undesirable alien. Life in the camp, which German emigres testified to being comparable with Dachau, is illuminated by a writer whose humanity, optimism and intelligence shine on every page.
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