'A gripping story: There cannot be many clearer or more detailed accounts of the operations of the French resistance, and Hue's death-defying adventures make for riveting reading' New Statesman Andre Hue was something of a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to unite resistance forces in Brittany and paralyze local German troops during the Allied invasion. Though Hue's mission was fraught with difficulty he missed his landing site, his secret base camp became the site of a pitch battle and a band of Cossacks tried to hunt him down he knew that thousands of lives depended on his success or failure.
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Andre Hue was born in Swansea of a Welsh mother and French father, and brought up in France. He was recruited by SOE and parachuted into Brittany, where he displayed outstanding bravery for which he was awarded both the DSO and the Croix de Guerre. He was later dropped behind enemy lines in Burma, and after the war joined MI6. He is in his 80s, and lives with his wife in Sussex.
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This is the amazing story of one French-British young man's work with the Maquis in Normandy right before the landing. It certainly rings true and provides a great companion to the historical accounts of the resistance. I was lucky enough to have it along as I drove around Normandy last year and couldn't wait to get back to my room and continue reading!
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'Abandon ship!' 'Abandon ship!' I was under a hot shower, and froze. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dropping zone, next moon, two jeeps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colonel Bourgoin, Monsieur Pondard, Monsieur Legrand, Captain Bob, Sergeant Major, Maquis de Saint-Marcel, Monsieur Gambert, Charles Touzet, Free French, Madame Gambert, Emile Guimard, Lieutenant Taylor, Madame Pondard, Colonel Buckmaster, Monsieur Lecceur, Alexis Babin, Bahnhof Guer the Younger, Captain Leblond, Landes de Lanvaux, Baker Street, Colonel Hauffmann, General Gubbins, Monsieur Hauffmann, Monsieur Touzet, Captain Cyr New!
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'Abandon ship!' 'Abandon ship!' I was under a hot shower, and froze. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dropping zone, next moon, two jeeps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colonel Bourgoin, Monsieur Pondard, Monsieur Legrand, Captain Bob, Sergeant Major, Maquis de Saint-Marcel, Monsieur Gambert, Charles Touzet, Free French, Madame Gambert, Emile Guimard, Lieutenant Taylor, Madame Pondard, Colonel Buckmaster, Monsieur Lecceur, Alexis Babin, Bahnhof Guer the Younger, Captain Leblond, Landes de Lanvaux, Baker Street, Colonel Hauffmann, General Gubbins, Monsieur Hauffmann, Monsieur Touzet, Captain Cyr New!
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- Secret Flotillas: Vol. I: Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany, 1940-1944 (Government Official History Series) by Brooks Richards in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cockleshell Heroes by Lucas C.E. Phillips in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- French North Africa (Secret Flotillas) by Brooks Richards in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cockleshell Heroes (Pan Grand Strategy) by C E Lucas Phillips in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Jungle Is Neutral by Spencer F. Chapman in Front Matter
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