World War II
The coming of war that year found Hall in Paris. She joined the Ambulance Service before the fall of France and ended up in Vichy-controlled territory when the fighting stopped in the summer of 1940.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)