{"product_id":"9781612194257","title":"33 Days: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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-Exup?ry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003cbr\u003e In June of 1940, Leon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army.\u003ci\u003e 33 Days\u003c\/i\u003e is his eyewitness account of that experience, one of the largest civilian dispacements in history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Encouraged to write \u003ci\u003e33 Days \u003c\/i\u003eby his dear friend, Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e, Werth finished the manuscript while in hiding in the Jura mountains.\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003cbr\u003e Saint-Exup?ry 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.\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003cbr\u003e This, the first-ever English language translation of \u003ci\u003e33 Days\u003c\/i\u003e, includes Saint-Exup?ry?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, \u003ci\u003e33 Days\u003c\/i\u003e appears?complete and as it was fully intended.","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43108425957437,"sku":"9781612194257","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781612194257_p0.jpg?v=1776168199","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781612194257","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}