Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 335 pages. The author was the chief foreign correspondent for Paris-Soir. He kept a diary from October 9, 1939 until he evacuated in the war to the United States. Translated from the French by Anne Green. He observed," ...Mr. John Frenchman paid the price of unpreparedness for Total War. He had plenty of butter-that was what he wanted. He lacked airplanes, tanks, canon..."