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A Foreign Field: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War (The Englishman's Daughter)

✍ Scribed by Macintyre, Ben

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2001
Tongue
en-US
Weight
169 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

This edition does not include illustrations. A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War. From the Number 1 bestselling author of Γ’??Agent ZigZagΓ’?? and Γ’??Operation MincemeatΓ’??. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western front in August 1914; unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of Villeret. Living in daily fear of capture and execution, they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers including the local matriarch, Madame Dessenne, the baker and his wife. The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives, Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the twenty-year-old-daughter of one of his protectors and in November 1915, with war waging a few miles away, she gives birth to a baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and summarily...

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