I Came Out of France

By Cecily Mackworth

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966426046
• ISBN13: 9781966426042
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Clunie House
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"