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Fair Stood the Wind for France

novel by Bates

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  • In H.E. Bates

    …published under his own name—Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), about a British bomber crew forced down in occupied France, and two set in Burma (Myanmar) during the Japanese invasion, The Purple Plain (1946) and The Jacaranda Tree (1948)—earned Bates a new reputation as a novelist of power.

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