The Left Bank: Writers, artists, and politics from the Popular Front to the Cold WarThis story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the Nazis, much of the thinking world sought guidance from this extraordinary group of intellectuals. Herbert Lottman's chronicle follows the influential players Gide, Malraux, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Koestler, Camus, and their pro Fascist counterparts through the German occupation, Liberation, and into the Cold