The Innocents Within: A Novel"Also living in the rectory, as much loved by the pastor as his own children, is a German Jewish girl whose parents disappeared in the first weeks of the war. The pastor and his wife took her in as a child. Now eighteen, she has grown into a beauty."--BOOK JACKET. "Into this mix, badly wounded, crashes an American fighter pilot who is scarcely older. He is brought to the rectory."--BOOK JACKET. "Centered on a real village and real people who defied the Nazis, The Innocents Within is about courage and love, religion and danger. Most of all it is a study of innocence against a background of the most monstrous evil ever known."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 58
... trying to fly the plane , and so managed to stab him- self in the leg . He was insane with rage and fear by that time and hardly felt it , except that his pants leg rapidly got wet . His waist was already wet , his side . But at last ...
... trying to fly the plane , and so managed to stab him- self in the leg . He was insane with rage and fear by that time and hardly felt it , except that his pants leg rapidly got wet . His waist was already wet , his side . But at last ...
Page 232
... trying to absorb all this , while also trying to decide what , if anything , she may have sensed in Rachel's demeanor . " How badly hurt was he ? " Rachel began to describe the wounds . " You appear to have observed them very closely ...
... trying to absorb all this , while also trying to decide what , if anything , she may have sensed in Rachel's demeanor . " How badly hurt was he ? " Rachel began to describe the wounds . " You appear to have observed them very closely ...
Page 336
... trying to scare the lying Yid . This was the first time Gruber overruled his subordinate , and he thought it would ... trying to pick up each one . " " We could spend a week at it and not fill a single bus , " conceded Haas . " It wouldn ...
... trying to scare the lying Yid . This was the first time Gruber overruled his subordinate , and he thought it would ... trying to pick up each one . " " We could spend a week at it and not fill a single bus , " conceded Haas . " It wouldn ...
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