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Guiet, Jean Claude

 
9780750965262: Dead on Time: The Memoir of an SOE and OSS Agent in Occupied France
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ISBN 10 : 0750965266 ISBN 13 : 9780750965262
Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a 'naïve' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a native French speaker he was quickly assigned to SOE and the OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and parachuted into occupied France in the lead up to D-Day. After the liberation of Paris he was sent to Indochina to organise and train tribes in the jungles of the Far East to fight the Japanese. Subsequently he worked for the CIA in Washington.Told with characteristic understatement and charm, Jean Claude's writing perfectly captures the variety of his own long and fascinating life. Much more than one man's memoirs, Dead on Time is a tribute to a unique generation whose lives were regularly filled with both danger and laughter.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jean Claude Guiet was an American citizen. He worked for the CIA throughout the 1950s--the files are still classified. After that he worked for Honeywell Inc and became active in the Civil Rights Movement and against the Vietnam War. He died in 2013.

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Éditeur
The History Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0750965266
ISBN 13 
9780750965262
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
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Personne responsable
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