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War diaries : notebooks from a phoney war, November 1939-March 1940

by Jean-Paul Sartre, Quintin Hoare

Written between late 1939 and mid-1940 during service in a military meteorological unit in Alsace, these diaries contain notes on philosophy, literature, politics and autobiography that document the writer's intellectual development and anticipate later major works.

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