Blackout (1939)

"All Through My Voyage to Europe, and in the Weeks that Followed, the Talk Was of War, Until in the End There Was War..." Earle, Hubert P. Blackout. The Human Side of Europe's March to War. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1939. Octavo. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition of this memoir by a Harvard student assigned to the United States Embassy in Paris just prior to the Second World War, who was entrusted with carrying diplomatic messages between Paris and Warsaw as well as helping scared Americans to get home. As a family friend of William C. Bullitt, the ambassador to France, Harvard student Hubert Earle had the unique opportunity to experience life in Europe during the two months prior to the outbreak of World War II. In his early days at the embassy, he watched as Britain prepared for war and as France struggled to hold its own borders against the German threat. Originally recruited as an intern investigating a career in the diplomatic services, Earle soon found himself coding a