The Englishman"s Daughter

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The Englishman s Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret.

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It is a story about a group of nine ally soldiers that all find their way to a small town in northern France named Villeret after being left behind by there retreating units/5. THE ENGLISHMAN'S DAUGHTER focus on that French incident betweenbut furbishes the audience with the underlying generalization that in war in spite of technology people count.

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The Englishman’s Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret.

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The Englishman s Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret.

Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as The Englishman s Daughter, and in an act of unspeakable /5(44). THE ENGLISHMAN'S DAUGHTER focus on that French incident betweenbut furbishes the audience with the underlying generalization that in war in spite of technology people count.

It is the true human drama that makes history hum and enables the audience to understand the past, connects it to the present, and projects it into the future. "The four Tommies, of whom the oldest was only thirty-six, had barely a clue of their whereabouts, but knew well enough that they were not supposed to be there.".

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Publication Date. Buy a cheap copy of Englishman's Daughter book by Peter Evans. Free shipping over $ A small tale extracted from the annals of the “War to End All Wars,” by historical biographer Macintyre (The Napoleon of Crime,etc.), proves powerful and the guns of August echoed in Picardy, some British Tommies became separated from their units, the King's Own Lancasters, the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and the Royal Hampshires.

Source: The First Meeting by Lucien Jonas My thoughts: A small French village where life seem to be unchanged throughout the ages is the dramatic background for much of the story behind The Englishman's Daughter and the protagonists actual people.

Ben Macintyre has done a singular job of recounting what is believed to have happened in this little place in Picardie. The Englishman's Daughter A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I (Book): Macintyre, Ben: Never before told, The Englishman's Daughter is a harrowing tale of love and duplicity and their tragic consequences, which haunt the people of northern France's town of Villeret eight decades after the Great War.

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The Englishman’s Daughter A Foreign Field. But that alone would not carry the length of a book. Interviewing people who lived through the events and their descendants, and combing through official and unofficial documents from the time, Macintyre pieces together a broader tale.

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Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as “The Englishmans Daughter,” and in an act of unspeakable. The Englishman's Daughter A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I (Book): Macintyre, Ben: Baker & TaylorIn a story of courage in the face of war and oppression, the author revisits the village in northern France that protected British soldiers caught behind the lines of the German invasion rinckI have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade.Englishman's Daughter book.

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Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as "The Englishman's Daughter," and in an act of unspeakable.