Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780300252590
Inhalt:
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
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:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300245660
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780300245660
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Rée, Harry 1914-1991
DOI:
10.12987/9780300252590
