« This account exists because of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, which was dedicated to Werth. Saint-Exupéry smuggled the manuscript out of France and found it a publisher. The fee : cigarettes, chocolate and water purification tablets. However, Werth, who died in 1955, aged 77, didn’t live to see its publication - the manuscript went missing and wasn’t rediscovered until 1992. »
33 days
Léon WERTH (ENG)
Foreign rights : USA (Melville House Books) - Italy (Bompiani) - Germany (S. Fischer) - Netherlands (De Geus).
A 200-paged account of the exodus of French citizens when the German army entered Paris in 1940 : 33 days of chaos when the French are on the road with all their belongings.