His World War II adventures included escape from occupied France by joining the Foreign Legion and his bluffing his way illegally to England, where his controversial novel ''Arrival and Departure'' (1943) was the first to portray Hitler’s [[Holocaust]]. | His World War II adventures included escape from occupied France by joining the Foreign Legion and his bluffing his way illegally to England, where his controversial novel ''Arrival and Departure'' (1943) was the first to portray Hitler’s [[Holocaust]]. |