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1) Birdsong
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A tale of love and war early this century. The protagonists are Stephen Wraysford, a British businessman, and Isabelle Azaire, a married Frenchwoman. They meet in 1910, she elopes with him, gives birth to his child, then remorse sends her back to her husband. But World War I will bring them together when he returns to France as an officer in the British army.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a woman volunteers to be parachuted as a spy into Occupied France to help Britain's war effort. But Charlotte Gray's real motive is more personal, she wants to find a British airman missing over France whom she loves. By the author of Birdsong.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter with Tariq, a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own, disrupts her plan. Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as a lodger, forming an unexpected connection with the young...