A schoolmaster's war : Harry Rée, British agent in the French resistance /
The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words. A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words. A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree 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 Ree's own war writings, superbly edited and contextualized by his son, the philosopher Jonathan Ree, are far more nuanced, shot through with doubts, regrets and grief. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 216 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300245661 9780300245660 |