The Professor and the Fossil (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Professor and the Fossil (Classic Reprint) written by Maurice Samuel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Professor and the Fossil I arrived in Paris on the day of the publication of the nazi-soviet Pact, and my assignment was over. Now the world's newspapers would not have even a ten-line filler on the tenth page to Spare for the peripheral tragedy of the Jewish refugees. Moreover, the traffic in rescue was tempo farily disrupted, to be resumed later under more desperate circumstances. Not that war was considered quite certain; nor, when it was declared, was its continuance considered quite certain. (let the incredulous reader consult the news paper files for the early days of the phony war. But the pact itself was a tremendous event; and if war was uncertain, both before and after the declaration, the wild maneuvering was now being conducted on the very edge of the abyss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.