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A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree: A British Agent in the French Resistance

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree: A British Agent in the French Resistance
Date: May 8th, 2020
ISBN: 0300245661
Language: English
Number of pages: 192 pages
Format: EPUB
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.

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