A Schoolmaster's War - A British Secret Agent in World War II
Author(s): Jonathan Ree
The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry R e, told in his own words
A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry R e 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 R e's own war writings, superbly edited and contextualized by his son, the philosopher Jonathan R e, are far more nuanced, shot through with doubts, regrets, and grief.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Yale University Press
- : Yale University Press
- : 0.47
- : April 2020
- : 2.576 Centimeters X 14.5 Centimeters X 21.6 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : 192
- : 940.548641092
- : English
- : 2004
- : Hardback
- : Jonathan Ree