Second World War

In the antiquarian book trade, the Second World War is read through the correspondence of combatants or deportees, diaries kept day by day, clandestine tracts and posters, and first editions published under the Occupation or in exile. The bibliophilic interest often lies in the provenance, in the direct testimony borne by the piece, and in what it reveals of an age when the written word became an act of resistance or the fragile trace of a memory to be preserved.