War novel prefaced the (American) first edition of 1941, Powys comments "the beginning of the fifteenth century […] saw the beginning of one of the most momentous and startling epochs of "transition" that the world has known". This was written in May 1940, and "[t]here can be no doubt" that readers of the novel would have "registered the connection between the actions of the book and the events of their own world". "Fair Stood the Wind for France" is a 1944 novel by H. E. Bates, which is concerned with a pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when
Josephine White Bates New York, while the rest of the year, her address was 615 Fifth Avenue, in New York City. Her son Lindon Bates, Jr. also became an engineer; he later perished in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Bates died in New York state. Josephine White Bates Josephine White Bates (8 July 1862 – 1934) was a Canadian-born American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of "A. Blind Lead", 1886; "Bunch-Grass Stories", 1892; and "Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity", 1912. Josephine White was born 8