He later recalled writing several unpublished novels during this period, but in a contrasting account stated that he wrote only plays.
[1] He joined the French Foreign Legion at the outbreak of World War II, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1940.
His prize-winning first novel, which he began to write while stranded in Vichy France, Running to Paradise, is a fictionalised account of combat with the Legion and experiences as a prisoner of war.
[3][4] In addition to novels, he also published two volumes of autobiography, the second left incomplete at the time of his death in a car accident in Spain.
[7] A few years after Lodwick's death, Anthony Burgess wrote: "He is not afraid of rhetoric, grandiloquence; his knowledge of foreign literature is wide; his mastery of the English language matches Evelyn Waugh's."