A schoolmaster's war : Harry Ree - a British agent in the French resistance / Jonathan Ree.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ree, Jonathan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rée, Harry.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.

France.

Great Britain. Special Operations Executive.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Maps

1 Beginnings

2 Adventures

3 Reflections

4 Letters from France

5 Looking Back

The Story in Brief

Chronology

Biographies

Glossary

Bibliographies

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-25259-5

OCLC:

1158111528