Staub, Peggie Spearman. Flight from Paris. [New York:  House of Field, Inc., 1944. $1.75.]

So many stories have come out of this war and this is one of many, brief yet graphic, of a woman's experience in the present conflict. It is unique in that it portrays fortitude in summoning to performance all the fundamental characteristics necessary to survival, both physical and spiritual. Her physical endurance is undoubtedly strengthened by her determination to escape the Nazis, and the end of life for herself, her husband and children if they should be captured in France. The need for escape is determined by her simple though intense desire to secure her husband's freedom.

The author is a British woman of dramatic talent and interest who before the domination of the Nazis established the first all-English theatre in Germany. She was forced to flee from that country with her husband when he was discovered to be anti-Nazi. Dr. Staub, an exiled German Jew, joined the French Army to fight as a soldier against his own countrymen when the Nazis entered Poland. He had established himself previous to the war as a doctor of great ability in mental hygiene and since entering the French Army had been of invaluable service with shell shock cases. After the fall of France he was taken prisoner but later escaped—the story of which is tragic but thrilling.