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H.E. Bates Herbert Ernest Bates - Author

Herbert Ernest Bates was born in 1905 in Northhamptonshire, England. He knew he wanted to be a writer from the age of 12. Determined to write his first novel H.E. left school at seventeen and had worked as a clerk and a journalist and been on the dole for a while by the time he was 20 years old. It was then he had his first novel published, The Two Sisters. Over the next fifteen years he was to write eight novels and more than a dozen short story collections.

In 1941 H.E. (as he was known both professionally and privately) went to war serving in the Air Force. Whilst there he compiled another set of short stories regarding "Flying Officer X, " who became quite famous for describing exploits of life in the Air Force during the Second World War. Although these stories...

He and his crew are forced to land in France when something goes wrong on their flight back from a bombing trip to Germany. Somehow they have to find their way through France and back to England, but considering they can only have landed in Occupied France or Vichy France, the only way they will manage that it with civilian help. They find it (of course) in the form of a young girl, Francoise, and her family, who live on a farm in Occupied France. Although this book is more serious in tone than some of H.E.'s other work, it is really easy to get the feel of what life was like…

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H.E. Bates, the author - PBS web site accessed at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/silas/bates.html14 March 2004.
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