This book was the first of her writing to be influenced by her love-affair with a Czech painter. She later omitted it from her bibliography, as she did another related text, Czechoslovakia, 1943, which...
Friends, Associates
Mary Wesley
Her host, Lieutenant-Colonel Camborne Paynter
, and his daughter Betty
(later Baerdemaecker), also offered hospitality to many politicians and fighters displaced from Europe by the war: André Dewavrin
of France and Jan Masaryk
and Ziegler
Dedications
Storm Jameson
SJ
began Europe to Let in late 1938 as the Czech crisis unfolded.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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She dedicated it To JT [writer and friend Jiřina Tůmová
] in Prague / In the hope that when the curtain...