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Under an English heaven

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  • "1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand inhabitants. For Billy Street, fourteen, a London evacuee uneasily billeted with the village blacksmith, the American invasion is heaven sent - unlimited opportunities and acceptance at last within a community he loves. Yet a concealed past threatens his new happiness. Billy's schoolteacher, Heather Garrett, awaits word of a husband missing for eighteen months. A stranger to Bedenham, Heather's sense of isolation - and village suspicions - are heightened when troubled American pilot John Hooper, reaches for her friendship. And daily the skies fill with the bombers and their ten-man crews who, during that bleak autumn of 1943, suffered losses on a catastrophic scale."
  • "Suffolk, 1943: Each dawn, thousands of American airmen take off to strike Germany's industrial war machine. Each dusk, hundreds fail to return. The American base in Bedenham brings upheaval, uncertainty and unease. For Billy Street, a fourteen-year-old streetwise evacuees, it's a time of unlimited opportunity and acceptance in a community he loves. For Billy's schoolteacher, Heather Garrett, awaiting word of her missing husband, it's an inward spiral of fear and islolation. For Lt. John Hooper, a brilliant but traumatised US pilot coming to terms with the death of his entire crew, it's the start of a desperate struggle for sanity and redemption."
  • "It is 1943 and sleepy Suffolk village, Bedenham, is jerked into the 20th century and the harsh reality of war by the arrival of an American bomber base and its 3000 inhabitants. For 14-year-old evacuee Billy, the US "invasion" is heaven sent, but a concealed past threatens this new happiness."

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  • "War stories"
  • "Historical fiction"
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  • "Fiction"

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  • "Under an English Heaven"
  • "Under an english heaven"
  • "Under engelsk himmel"@da
  • "Under an English heaven"
  • "Under an English heaven"@en

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