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Messy is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is about 30km east of Paris.

Messy in The War That Came Early[]

Sgt. Alistair Walsh ended up in Messy in 1939 after the French and British counter-attack prevented the Wehrmacht from capturing Paris. There the lines stabilised and both sides dug in much as they had in the previous war.[1]

  1. West and East, pgs. 10-14, HC.
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