A Schoolmaster's War

A Schoolmaster's War
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9780300252590
ISBN-13 : 0300252595
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Download or read book A Schoolmaster's War written by Jonathan Rée and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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