A schoolmaster's war : Harry Rée, British agent in the French Resistance
2020
Books, Manuscripts
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 contextualised by his son, the philosopher Jonathan Rée, are far more nuanced, shot through with doubts, regrets, and grief.
Main title:
A schoolmaster's war : Harry Rée, British agent in the French Resistance / edited by Jonathan Rée.
Author:
Rée, Harry, authorRée, Jonathan, 1948-, editor
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]©2020
Collation:
xix, 216 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300245660 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.548641092940.548641940.548
Language:
English
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BRN:
2931441
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