A rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis’ march on Paris in 1940, featuring a never-before-published introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In June of 1940, Leon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army. 33 Days is his eyewitness account of that experience, one of the largest civilian dispacements in history. Encouraged to write 33 Days by his dear friend, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, Werth finished the manuscript while in hiding in the Jura mountains. Saint-Exupéry smuggled the manuscript out of Nazi-occupied France, wrote an introduction to the work and arranged for its publication in the United States by Brentanos. But the publication never came to pass, and Werth’s manuscript would disappear for more than fifty years until the first French edition, in 1992. It has since become required reading in French schools. This, the first-ever English language translation of 33 Days, includes Saint-Exupéry’s original introduction for the book, long thought to be lost. It is presented it here for the first time in any language. After more than seventy years, 33 Days appears—complete and as it was fully intended.

33 Days: A Memoir (Neversink)

Biographies & Memoirs

WERTH, Léon

Historical

Melville House

Déposition: Extraits de journal 1940-1944

POINTS

TRENTE TROIS JOURS

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

VIVIANE HAMY

Déposition: Journal de guerre 1940-1944

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Cochinchine

L'insoumis: Léon Werth, 1878-1955

Heuré, Gilles

Arts & Literature

33 jours (French Edition)

33 Tage: Ein Bericht (mit einem Vorwort von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry und mit einem Nachwort von Peter Stamm)

History

Europe

FISCHER, S.

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