The publishing house El Paseo recovers, thanks to the work of philologist Yolanda Morató, 600 forgotten articles that the brilliant journalist from Seville Seville wrote ..
for several international agencies from Paris and London between 1939 and 1944.
Living in Paris this August morning, when men silently leave their homes and go to join their military units, one has the impression that, from one moment to the next, one can move from theoretical demonstration to practical exercise in the field. This is how the journalist and writer Manuel Chaves Nogales described the mood in the French capital in the summer of 1939, a few days before the outbreak of World War II which he never imagined living when he went into exile in Paris in 1936, fleeing from the violence that was raging in Madrid at the dawn of our Civil War.
Nor did he imagine that he would spend the next five years reporting on the day to day of the conflict until he gathered more than 600 chronicles which up to now were unpublished. El Paseo publishing house has now published in three volumes ‘Diarios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.’ The first part, ‘Desde París,’ will be available in the coming days.
By Andrés Seoane, May 2025
