Andrzej Bobkowski

I don’t suppose anybody reads long diaries or notebooks from a complete front to back. Bobkowski‘s book is certainly useful if you want to understand what life was like in occupied Paris during World War II. For the author, he carried on with his own personal wife working, reading, vacationing, going to plays, and sitting in cafés. What I found most interesting was the perceptions of the allies from his standpoint as a Polish expatriate. Many Parisians at the time were enthralled with the idea of Stalin‘s Russia as their new ally. He also has some contempt for the British. The notebooks end with the liberation of Paris in August 1944.… (meer)