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A Schoolmaster's War

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#422528
Titel	A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Rée, British Agent in the French Resistance
Auteur	Rée, Jonathan
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven/London : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2020
ISBN10	0300245661
ISBN13	9780300245660
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some illustrations (mostly photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words. A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree 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 Ree's own war writings, superbly edited and contextualized by his son, the philosopher Jonathan Ree, are far more nuanced, shot through with doubts, regrets, and grief.
Pagina's	216
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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