A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance - Couverture rigide

Ree, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300245661 ISBN 13 : 9780300245660

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Harry Rée, DSO, OBE, was a British school teacher and educationist and a wartime member of the Special Operations Executive.Jonathan Rée, son of Harry Rée, is a freelance historian and philosopher. His books include Philosophical Tales, I See a Voice and Witcraft.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300245661
• ISBN 13: 9780300245660
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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