Yellow Tapers for Paris. A Dirge.

Bookseller Notes

The Scottish author had lived in Paris up until two days before the German occupation, which is also the climax of this short novel. The blurb on the front flap calls it 'a dirge for a death three-parts suicide'. In his Foreword, Marshall calls it 'an attempt to show some of the reasons why France lost the war' - acknowledging it as a fate that could have befallen Britain, 'had it not been for twenty-two miles of sea and the courage of her airmen'.