There's an introspective journal written about the run-up to WWII, which although personal also takes in societal and political observations, by Louis MacNeice,

There's an introspective journal written about the run-up to WWII, which although personal also takes in societal and political observations, by Louis MacNeice, called Autumn Journal. In it, he writes: And the individual, powerless, has to exert the Powers of will and choice And choose between enormous evils, either Of which depends on somebody else’s voice. It's, maybe, 80 or so pages of poetry, but imo well worth reading. It's available, among other places, at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184237 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184237