Fair Stood the Wind for France

Name: Fair Stood the Wind for France
Price: 8.99 EUR
Author: H. E. Bates
ISBN: 9780141904986

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H. E. Bates

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Paru le : 07/04/2005

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... > Lire la suite

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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...

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Date de parution : 07/04/2005
Editeur : PENGUIN
Collection : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN : 0-14-190498-4
EAN : 9780141904986
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 256 pages

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- Pages : 256
- Protection num. : Contenu protégé

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Biographie de H. E. Bates

H. E. Bates was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the R. A. F. The Darling Buds of May, the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), Oh! To Be in England (1963).
His works have been translated into sixteen languages. H. E. Bates was awarded the C. B. E. in 1973 and died in January 1974.