Fair Stood the Wind for France

Paperback Published on: 07/04/2005
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Synopsis

When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his mind - the safety of his crew and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer risk their lives to offer the airmen protection. During the hot summer weeks that follow, the English officer and the daughter of the house are drawn inexorably to each other...

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141188164
  • Number of pages: 256
  • Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 17 mm
  • Weight: 192g
  • Languages: English

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Fair Stood the Wind for France
Drinking tea in Marseilles
I first read H. E, Bates’ Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944) twenty years after its war-time publication, when I was 14. I responded, then, to its roma... READ MORE
Douglas Tallack