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The Welsh Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)

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In rural Wales in 1944, the bright, restless daughter of a sheep farmer finds herself pregnant after a violent sexual encounter with an English soldier. Her sense of entrapment draws her in mute sympathy to the newly built internment camp in the valley, where an angst-ridden German P.O.W., struggling with the dishonor of having surrendered to the enemy, realizes that he has lost faith in the Nazi cause. Davies's ...

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