For fifty years, celebrated literary figure Marguerite Duras kept four small notebooks filled with writings from the World War II years hidden in a closet in her country home in France. Published in their entirety for the first time, these remarkable wartime writings include slices of autobiography and feature the early drafts of and true stories behind Duras" most famous works. Hailed as a "marvel and a treasure" (Le Monde), Wartime Writings chronicles the poignant circumstances of her childhood in colonial Vietnam, her experiences with the French Resistance during the war, and the conflicted and exhilarating time of the Liberation and the early postwar years. Throughout, Duras paints an unflinching portrait of this troubled and formative period for France.