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An English fighter pilot crashes his aircraft in Occupied France during the Second World War. He is safeguarded by a French farmer’s family, who risk their lives to conceal him from the occupying forces. While the pilot is grateful to the family, a budding attraction develops between him and the farm’s daughter, yet the realities of war keep them apart.
First publish date: 1944
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: H. E. Bates
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