![]() ![]() The men plan to escape to Spain, but Franklin’s injury has left him too weak to travel. Here, they are taken in by a mill-owner and his family, who hide them in an upstairs bedroom. After walking for an entire day, they come to a small farm on the edge of a woods. The five of them survive the plane going down in marshland, but Franklin’s left arm is badly injured. Franklin, who has been “actively operational” for almost a year and isn’t far off notching up his first 300-hours of flying time, is accompanied by a crew of four sergeants. The story begins with John Franklin’s Royal Airforce plane crash-landing in Occupied France at the height of the Second World War. (The title comes from the first line of Agincourt, a poem by Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton.) Bates’ 1944 classic Fair Stood the Wind for France is one of the finest and loveliest books I’ve ever read. Fiction – paperback Penguin Modern Classics 255 pages 2005. ![]()
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