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Fair stood the wind for France

When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World War, there are two things in his mind: the safety of his crew, and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer offers them protection. The family's courage derives from different sources. In Françoise, it was faith, a piety so humble and complete that the Reich could not touch her spirit. In her father, it was a glorious stubbornness; in her grandmother, a certitude born of surviving two wars. And in Pierre, it was hatred--a hatred so deep that only rarely did it flash on the surface. All through the delirious pain of his wounded arm, Franklin felt Françoise's presence like a cool, comforting hand. In the end, it was her courage and, above all, her faith that saved him--saved him not only from the enemy, but from himself.

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  • "An English fighter pilot brings his plane down in Occupied France during WWII. The family of a French farmer risk their lives to protect him. He and the daughter of the house are drawn to each other, but it is no time to fall in love."
  • "When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World War, there are two things in his mind: the safety of his crew, and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer offers them protection. The family's courage derives from different sources. In Françoise, it was faith, a piety so humble and complete that the Reich could not touch her spirit. In her father, it was a glorious stubbornness; in her grandmother, a certitude born of surviving two wars. And in Pierre, it was hatred--a hatred so deep that only rarely did it flash on the surface. All through the delirious pain of his wounded arm, Franklin felt Françoise's presence like a cool, comforting hand. In the end, it was her courage and, above all, her faith that saved him--saved him not only from the enemy, but from himself."@en
  • "Shot down in occupied France and sheltered by a French farmer, John Franklin finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house in the weeks that follow."@en
  • "When bomber pilot Franklin loses an arm after crashing in Nazi-occupied France, his chances of evading capture seem remote. But a resistance doctor succesfully treats him despite German harrassment, and a French girl and her family courageously further his escape."@en
  • "When bomber pilot Franklin loses an arm after crashing in Nazi-occupied France, his chances of evading capture seem remote. But a resistance doctor successfully treats him despite German harassment, and a French girl and her family courageously further his escape."@en
  • "When a plane is downed on occupied France at the height of the Second World War, a French family risk their lives to offer the airmen protection."
  • "PLAYAWAY. When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World War, there are two things in his mind - the safety of his crew and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer risk their lives to offer the airmen protection. During the hot summer weeks that follow, the English officer and the daughter of the house are drawn inexorably to each other - container."
  • "RAF pilot John Franklin and his crew are forced to land in France when something goes wrong on their flight back from a bombing trip to Germany during WWII. Somehow they have to find their way through France and back to England, but considering they can only have landed in Occupied France or Vichy France, the only way they will manage that it with civilian help. They find it in the form of a young girl, Francoise, and her family, who live on a farm in Occupied France."@en
  • "In het laatste jaar van de Tweede Wereldoorlog vindt de bemanning van een neergestorte Engelse bommenwerper onderdak in een molen op het Franse platteland."
  • "An English fighter pilot brings his plane down in Occupied France during WWII. The family of a French farmer risk their lives to protect him. He and the daughter of the house are drawn to each other, but it is not time to fall in love."@en

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