Dimensions
150 x 230 x 50mm
War infects everything it touches. For everyone, whether combatant or not, it is the most testing of times, when the old certainties and moral imperatives cannot be guaranteed. Life hangs by a gossamer thread and many people who would otherwise not keep diaries feel the need to record what they see, feel and do. 'The Secret Annexe' takes its title from the hiding place Anne Frank and her family found refuge in during the Second World War, and which the young Frank envisioned she might in the future entitle a novel based on the diary she kept.
Frank's diary, and all of those included in this fascinating new collection edited by Irene and Alan Taylor, is an account of the many ways in which war impacts people's lives, from the ordinary to the famous and powerful. Where else can you find out what Josef Goebbels thought of Disney's classic animation, Snow White, or how Che Guevara viewed the world on his 37th - and last - birthday, whilst fighting a guerrilla war in Bolivia?
