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Copyright Fourth Estate An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk This eBook first published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014 Copyright © Anthony Doerr 2014 Extract from About Grace © Anthony Doerr 2005 Cover design by Tal Goretsky and Lynn Buckley Cover photographs: Manuel Clauzier (San Malo); George Eastman House/Getty images (sky) The right of Anthony Doerr to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780008138301 Ebook Edition © April 2015 ISBN: 9780007548682 Version: 2017-03-14 Dedication For Wendy Weil 1940–2012 Epigraph Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast … The city looked picturesque and solid from the sea but as we got near the landing place we realized that the houses visible above the walls were just burnt-out shells … Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged to some degree. —Philip Beck It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Part Zero: 7 August 1944 Leaflets Bombers The Girl The Boy Saint-Malo Number 4 rue Vauborel Cellar Bombs Away Part One: 1934 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Zollverein Key Pound Radio Take Us Home Something Rising Light Our Flag Flutters Before Us Around the World in Eighty Days The Professor Sea of Flames Open Your Eyes Fade The Principles of Mechanics Rumors Bigger Faster Brighter Mark of the Beast Good Evening. Or Heil Hitler if You Prefer. Bye-bye, Blind Girl Making Socks Flight Herr Siedler Exodus Part Two: 8 August 1944 Saint-Malo Number 4 rue Vauborel Hotel of Bees Down Six Flights Trapped Part Three: June 1940 Château Entrance Exam Brittany Madame Manec You Have Been Called Occuper Don’t Tell Lies Etienne Jungmänner Vienna The Boches Hauptmann Flying Couch The Sum of Angles The Professor Perfumer Time of the Ostriches Weakest Mandatory Surrender Museum The Wardrobe Blackbirds Bath Weakest (#2) The Arrest of the Locksmith Part Four: 8 August 1944 The Fort of La Cité Atelier de Réparation Two Cans Number 4 rue Vauborel What They Have Trip Wire Part Five: January 1941 January Recess He Is Not Coming Back Prisoner Plage du Môle Lapidary Entropy The Rounds Nadel im Heuhaufen Proposal You Have Other Friends Old Ladies’ Resistance Club Diagnosis Weakest (#3) Grotto Intoxicated The Blade and the Whelk Alive Before You Die No Out The Disappearance of Hubert Bazin Everything Poisoned Visitors The Frog Cooks Orders Pneumonia Treatments Heaven Frederick Relapse Part Six: 8 August 1944 Someone in the House The Death of Walter Bernd Sixth-floor Bedroom Making the Radio In the Attic Part Seven: August 1942 Prisoners The Wardrobe East One Ordinary Loaf Volkheimer Fall Sunflowers Stones Grotto Hunting The Messages Loudenvielle Gray Fever The Third Stone The Bridge Rue des Patriarches White City Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Telegram Part Eight: 9 August 1944 Fort National In the Attic The Heads Delirium Water The Beams The Transmitter Voice Part Nine: May 1944 Edge of the World Numbers May Hunting (Again) “Clair de Lune” Antenna Big Claude Boulangerie Grotto Agoraphobia Nothing Forty Minutes The Girl Little House Numbers Sea of Flames The Arrest of Etienne LeBlanc 7 August 1944 Leaflets
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