โ Scribed by Norman G. Gautreau
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A remembrance of love in a time of war.
92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at last address a grief he has allowed to simmer for decades and to rekindle memories of รlodie Bedier, the French Resistance fighter with whom he fell in love 70 years earlier, as a way of confronting his grief at losing her.
During his return journey, he relives events of 1944: being wounded as he parachutes into Normandy; falling in love with รlodie who nurses him back to health; fighting the Germans alongside her and her resistance companions; and finally abandoning the war to rescue a group of children from the Holocaust, choices that leave Henry at risk of a firing squad for desertion and รlodie vulnerable to fatal condemnation from her compatriots.When he arrives back in France, Henry makes several shocking discoveries that shake the very...
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A remembrance of love in a time of war. 92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at last address a grief he has allowed to simmer for decades and to rekin
Contents: * Introduction: The Dark Side of the Moon (1986) * Sulwen's Planet (1968) * Dover Spargill's Ghastly Floater (1951) * Phalid's Fate (1946) * DP (1953) * The Phantom Milkman (1956) * Alfred's Ark (1965) * A Practical Man's Guide (1957) * First Star I See Tonight (1954) * The Temple of Han