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japple

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11. Will have to check that out. I tried it several years ago and, for whatever reason,

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #10)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 07:55 PM

Sep 2013

couldn't get into it. Sometimes you just have to be in the right frame of mind to read something.

My father was in a group (the First Special Service Force) who fought in the mountains of Northern Italy during WWII as well as in Southern France, the area that was the setting for A Thread of Grace. Many of the descendents of those soldiers have read and enjoyed this book.

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