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Chapter 1
Just ahead of an American attack, leaflets fall from the sky to warn residents of a city to evacuate.
Chapter 2
Twelve American bombers cross the English Channel.
Chapter 3
Marie-Laure LeBlanc sits alone inside her great-uncle Etienne’s home in Saint-Malo. She hears planes flying overhead. A flyer warning of an impending assault by American bombers lands near her, but she is blind and cannot read it.
Chapter 4
Private Werner Pfennig wakes in the Hotel of Bees where his unit is billeted in Saint-Malo. A corporal orders him to go to the cellar. The hotel once was a privateer’s lair. It is fortress-like and houses an antiaircraft gun manned by a crew of Austrians.
Chapter 5
The townspeople who have not evacuated awake to the noise of guns and planes amid the shower of leaflets. In a fortress, the last German bastion on the Breton coast, French prisoners peer up at the sky.
Other sieges have rocked the city of Saint-Malo over the centuries, but none like this...
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