Return From Hell

by Jules Roy, Mervyn Savill (Translator)

Extracts from the author's diary written in 1944-45 when he was on flying missions over Germany as captain of a Free French bomber crew.

229 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1954

About the author

Jules Roy was a French writer.Roy, born an Algerian pied noir (Algerian settler of French descent) and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences in the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War as inspiration for a number of his works. He began writing in 1946, while still serving in the military, and continued to publish fiction and historical works after his resignation in 1953 in protest of the First Indochina War. He was an outspoken critic of French colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence and later civil war, as well as a strongly religious man.