Author: Jonathan Rée
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
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.
A Schoolmaster's War
Author: Jonathan Rée
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
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.
A Schoolmaster at War
Author: Robert Tait Rees
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
The Schoolmaster and His Son. A Story of the Thirty Years' War, Etc
Author: Carl Heinrich CASPARI
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Schoolmaster and His Son
Author: Karl Heinrich Caspari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The Schoolmaster and His Son. A Story of the Thirty Years' War, Etc
Author: Carl Heinrich CASPARI
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A Schoolmaster at War, Etc. [Reminiscences of the European War. With Plates, Including Portraits.].
Author: Robert Tait REES
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Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Songs of a Schoolmaster
Author: John Richards
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Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Schoolmaster
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Schoolmaster and His Son, Or, The Thirty Years' War
Author: James F. Cobb
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The Schoolmaster and His Son, Or, The Thirty Years' War
Author: Karl Heinrich Caspari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description