THE EMBASSY TRAIN. Translated from the French

by E. H. F. Mills by Ignace Legrand

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First edition

London: Hachette The Continental Publishers and Distributors Ltd. , 1945 . Octavo, red cloth stamped in black. First edition in English. Short novella about an elderly French emigre in England in the early days of World War II. He has gone there without any local contacts or any knowledge of the language but is taken in hand by a fellow emigre, a young French woman traveling with her child. She decides to return to

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