A schoolmaster's war : Harry Rée - a British agent in the French Resistance
Rée, Jonathan, 1948-2020
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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 contextualised by his son, the philosopher Jonathan Rée, are far more nuanced, shot through with doubts, regrets, and grief.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
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192 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
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9780300245660 (hbk)
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940.5'48641'092940.548641092
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English
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2872381
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