Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 216 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
0300252595
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9780300252590
Inhalt:
The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Rée renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943. Harry showed a particular talent for winning the confidence of local resisters, and guided them in a series of dramatic sabotage operations, before getting into a hand-to-hand fight with an armed German officer, from which he was lucky to escape. This might seem like a romantic story of heroism and derring-do, but Harry Rée's own war writings, superbly edited and contextualized by his son, the philosopher Jonathan Rée, are far more nuanced, shot through with doubts, regrets, and grief
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Frontmatter - CONTENTS - List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Maps - 1 Beginnings - 2 Adventures - 3 Reflections - 4 Letters from France - 5 Looking Back - The Story in Brief - Chronology - Biographies - Glossary - Bibliographies - Index
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ree, Jonathan A Schoolmaster's War : Harry Ree - a British Agent in the French Resistance New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2020 ISBN 9780300245660
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Autobiography
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Biography
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