Fair Stood the Wind for France [Hardcover]

H. E. Bates (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Readers Union (1946)
• ASIN: B000KL5VTY
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,638,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beauty In The Moment, May 28, 2000

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Nick Warne (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fair Stood the Wind for France (Audio Cassette)

Not many books change your life.

HE Bates had a magical ability to evoke scenes of beauty and peace. In this novel, against a background of violence and fear. When I first read 'Fair Stood The Wind For France' as a schoolboy, I was attracted by the story of the heroic RAF bomber pilot shot down behind enemy lines in France, and his efforts to escape back to England. As I read it I realised that war was not heroic and glamorous, but filled with fear and disfigurement. Hardly an unique epiphany to be sure! But what brought it home to my fifteen year-old mind was Bates' simple illustration of his hero contemplating his inability ever again to open a bottle of wine and pour a glass. A banal task whose infinitesimal pleasure is usually lost against the noise of our lives. Bates brings home the happiness we can glean from the everyday, through his ability to conjure beauty from the mundane. Read this book for the beauty that Bates can evoke. Read it again to learn the value of a moment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bates, HE, October 23, 2010

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Copper Miner "goldminer" (Uruguay) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fair Stood The Wind For France (Paperback)

Bates write so well, i am starting a project to read everything he has written

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Timeless Love Story, May 19, 2011

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Art King (College Place, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fair Stood The Wind For France (Hardcover)

This novel presents the first-person narrative of a WWII RAF bomber pilot downed in occupied France. Bates unfolds the mans inner emotions while unfolding the story of pain, fear and then love. Warm and satisfying.