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Traumatized by horrors witnessed during the Nazi invasion of France during World War II, a young woman retreats to the dense Breton woods where she becomes a member of the clandestine French Resistance. When she finds a critically injured American paratrooper whose plane was shot down, she shelters the wounded…
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1 author picked The Witch of the Breton Woods as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because it had everything: A romance, a wartime thriller, and a ribbon of fantasy woven into the story.
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