Resistance
Author: Anita Shreve
As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Dussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside the village of Delahaut contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of her temporary residents.Ted Brice is found semiconscious by ten-year-old Jean Benoit, who realises that Cl….Read More
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