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Eliot for its harrowing realism, chronicles her month-long escape through France; from surviving bombing raids to running improvised medical clinics where soldiers performed surgery on themselves \u2014 always in danger, always just one step ahead of the Germans.<\/p>\n<p>Told in her characteristically clear, unsparing prose, it is a gripping, eyewitness account of a nation in free-fall.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHistory was building up all around me and I felt involved, part of it, wanting to wait a little longer and see it taking shape \u2026 I moved southward \u2026 frightened yet exhilarated.\u201d<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; flex_gap_desktop=&#8221;10px&#8221; column_element_direction_desktop=&#8221;default&#8221; column_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; desktop_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; 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Although her mother moved to South West England after her father was killed in battle on the Western Front in 1914, Mackworth always considered herself Welsh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ICOOFbodypara\"><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">Her aunt, Lady Rhondda, was instrumental in securing her a place at the London School of Economics for a two-year diploma in journalism in 1929. After this, Mackworth worked in Hungary and Germany and, after returning to London, married Belgian lawyer L\u00e9on Donckier de Donceel, moving to Brussels with him in 1935. They had a daughter Pascale L\u00e9onie Juliette in 1936. In 1938, her sister Helen died by suicide after her fianc\u00e9 was shot and killed by his mother. Two months later, Mackworth\u2019s husband died from tuberculosis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ICOOFbodypara\"><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">After her husband\u2019s death, Mackworth settled in Paris, first renting a flat in the Rue du Moulin Vert in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> arrondissement and later moving to Jeanne Bucher\u2019s art gallery in the Boulevard Montparnasse. Aside from teaching and studying, she also entered the literary circle of Henry Miller (who published her poems in an offshoot of his magazine <em>The Booster<\/em>), and Lawrence Durrell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ICOOFbodypara\"><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">After the start of WWII, Mackworth worked with Rose Adler at her <em>Books for the Army<\/em> circulating library, where she met Ren\u00e9 Gimpel, of whom she said, \u201c<em>I learned from him more than I have learned from anyone else, before or since.<\/em>\u201d As the war got closer, they closed down the library, conceding \u201c<em>the French Army was unlikely to do much reading in the near future<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/span>. <span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.1pt;\">She then became a Red Cross volunteer at the Gare d\u2019Austerlitz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ICOOFbodypara\"><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">In 1940, Mackworth escaped Nazi-occupied France to England via Spain and Portugal, a journey that was recounted in her 1941 memoir <em>I Came Out of France<\/em>. She remained in England throughout the rest of the war, working for the Free French, the Army Bureau of Current Affairs, where she led discussion groups on social issues, and lecturing for Alliance Fran\u00e7aise. She also published <em>Czechoslovakia Fights Back<\/em>, chronicling the resistance to the Nazi occupation, in 1942, and <em>Czechoslovakia<\/em> the following year. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ICOOFbodypara\"><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">Mackworth returned to France in 1946, finding post-war Paris initially to be \u201c<em>fresh and exciting<\/em>\u201d, but later, after the excitement had worn off, she felt society was \u201c<em>caught between nostalgia for the past and disillusionment about the present<\/em><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">\u201d. She continued to write and published both <em>Fran\u00e7ois Villon: A Study, and A Mirror for French Poetry, 1840-1940<\/em> in 1947. Later that year, she was sent to Palestine as a newspaper correspondent and went again in 1949 to cover, as one of only two female reporters, the ending of the British Mandate, describing it as \u201c<em>a country where people are making a fresh start, a country about to be born<\/em>\u201d. Her experiences there were shared in her book <em>The Mouth of the Sword<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ICOOFbodypara\"><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">She continued her real-life adventures in the 1954 book <em>The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt<\/em>, in which she retraced the footsteps of Eberhardt across the Algerian Sahara. Mackworth also published two novels: <em>Spring\u2019s Green Shadow<\/em> in 1952 and <em>Lucy\u2019s Nose<\/em> in 1992, and her biography <em>Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist Life<\/em> received the Darmstadt Award in 1961. She went on to publish her own memoir <em>Ends of the World<\/em> in 1987.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ICOOFbody\"><span class=\"ICOOFbody1\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .1pt;\">She married her second husband, the Marquis de Chabannes La Palice in 1956, and they stayed together, living in Normandy and Paris, until his death in 1980. 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