Paper In The Wind
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Ongoing6m
Last published Fri, Mar 18, 2016
"My name is Sophie Aubrey and I am twenty one years old and I have seen men die."
A young writer looks back on her wartime memories and the events leading up to it, that shaped her involvement in the French Resistance, costing her more than she bargained for; the loss of her loved ones.
Inspired by the actual events of the French Resistance 1940-1945
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