About the book: 2024 / 1933. Hannah Arendt flees Berlin to join fellow exiles without funds or documents seeking refuge in Paris. Simone de Beauvoir seeks answers to the challenges of a cruel world in Rouen. Ayn Rand is working in Hollywood exile on a novel she believes will reignite the flame of freedom in her adopted homeland. Simone Weil, disappointed by the results of the revolution in Russia, devotes all her thoughts and strength to the plight of the oppressed. Over the next decade, one of the darkest in European history, these four dedicated women would develop ideas that would sweep the globe and change the world in the second half of the century. Wolfram Eilenberger follows in the footsteps of his heroines from Leningrad to New York and from Spain at the height of the Civil War to Nazi-occupied France to trace the winding trajectories of their destinies. They face the injustice, unfreedom and unfathomable violence of their time as women, refugees, activists, members of the Resistance, but above all as thinkers. Watching the smelting of their radical ideas in the merciless crucible of time, together with them we are convinced of the redemptive power of thought. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.