Fascinating & Disturbing

Finished reading Mark Braude's The Typewriter and the Guillotine last night. A very interesting take on life in France both before and during WWII as told through the lives of a journalist, Janet Flanner, and, rather shockingly, a serial killer, Eugen Weidmann. As fascinating as it is disturbing. 

Orgeval - Bordeaux

  

In Braude's The Typewriter and the Guillotine, Janet Flanner flees Paris to Orgeval (marked), then to the port city of Bordeaux, hoping there to catch a ship back to the United States.

Totalitarianism

It happened. (From Mark Baude's The Typewriter and the Guillotine) 

Hitler

"Her [Janet Flanner's] harshest criticism was that Hitler 'has mystical tendencies, no common sense, and a Wagnerian taste for heroics and death. He was born loaded with vanities andhas developed megalomania as his final decoration.'" - Mark Braude, The Typewriter and the Guillotine

The Typewriter and the Guillotine

Brutal and gruesome opening chapter, so I had to temporarily put it down. Subsequent chapters, however, have kept me coming back for more.