I Came Out of France
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Pub Date Jul 1 2026 | Archive Date Jul 22 2026
Clunie House | Signature Books
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Description
In June 1940, Welsh writer and journalist Cecily Mackworth joined two million people flooding out of Paris before the imminent arrival of the Nazis. I Came Out of France, first published in 1941 and famously admired by T. S. Eliot for its harrowing realism, chronicles her month-long escape through France; from surviving bombing raids to running improvised medical clinics where soldiers performed surgery on themselves — always in danger, always just one step ahead of the Germans.
Told in her characteristically clear, unsparing prose, it is a gripping eyewitness account of a nation in free-fall.
A Note From the Publisher
It is being published by arrangement with Routledge, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group, and with permission of the author's heirs and estate.
Advance Praise
“Reading I Came Out of France by Cecily Mackworth: story of a young woman’s escape last year when France capitulated. Written quietly, easily, it gives a vivid picture of the fantastic horrors the refugees went through. One can hardly believe it. People swarming from the north, from the south, over-running country towns and villages; no food, no medical attention, no petrol; wild rumours, contradictory orders; suspicion, mistrust, hunger, illness, death; civilians machine-gunned, press and radio under German control. One feels one had no business to be sleeping comfortably and eating well when the French nation was suffering so much.”
- Jean Lucey Pratt’s diary entry - Monday, 18 August 1941
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
Jean Lucey Pratt
edited by: Simon Garfield
published by: Canongate Books (2015)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781966426066 |
| PRICE | $7.99 (USD) |