A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France. Last Times, Victor Serge's epic novel of the fall of France, is based--like much of his fiction--on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris in June 1940 and joined the chaotic mass exodus south to the unoccupied zone on foot with nothing but his manuscripts. He found himself trapped in Marseille under...