Wartime DiaryProvocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoirs Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn traditional views of Beauvoirs life and work. Beauvoir's clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenge the conventional picture of Beauvoir as