Sassoon’s slightly fictionalized memoir of World War I was published in three volumes: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928); Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930); and Sherston’s Progress (1936), under the collective title of, Memoirs of George Sherston. Memoirs from people who survived, and may not have participated, are necessary to read to understand the human toll that these large-scale country conflicts cause. Patton died in 1945 after sustaining injuries in a car crash, and his diaries were used to write the memoir War as I Knew It, which was published in 1947. The book combines fiction and nonfiction to convey the complex effects war has on individual identity. Published in 1985, La Douleur (War: A Memoir) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras that is supposedly adapted from the diaries she wrote during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II – if those diaries actually existed. A … The end of the war and the return of the camps announce to Marguerite Duras the beginning of an unbearable wait, a slow and silent agony in the midst of the chaos of the Liberation of Paris. by Emmanuel Finkiel. Memoirs written by people who lived through World War II. Product Description. Sounds difficult to adapt into a film, MEMOIR OF WAR. The series will bring this important part of our history to life by relaying true, personal stories through quality production and compelling narrative. In that form it stands #2 on my list of the finest personal accounts of the First World War. Memoir of War review – Parisian wartime drama fails to ignite. Memoirs of WWII is a short film series dedicated to preserving the history of the Second World War and the memory of those who served. Emmanuel Finkiel's haunting and hypnotic adaptation of seminal author Marguerite Duras's autobiographical novel "The War: A Memoir." synopsis. 7. It's 1944 Nazi-occupied France, and Marguerite is an active Resistance member along with husband Robert Antelme … The tale of a woman whose husband is caught by the Nazis muffles the fury and anger of Marguerite Duras’ book. Memoirs of An Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon This book starkly demonstrates how exposure to the brutality and futility of war is a potent antidote to the restless enthusiasm of youth. The writer Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. These memoirs tell the stories of the people who survived, by whatever game of chance was happening. His young wife, Marguerite, writer and resistant, was torn by the anguish of not having her news and her secret liaison with her comrade Dyonis. Melanie Thierry leaps toward the front echelon of current French actresses with her riveting turn as Marguerite Duras in Emmanuel Finkiel's slow-burning Memoir of Pain (La Douleur). 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