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Scholars Of Mayhem
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When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn't resist. What he found astonished him: a .45 automatic and five full clips; thin pieces of paper with random numbers on them; several passports with his father's photograph, each bearing a different name; and silk squares imprinted with different countries' flags, bearing messages in unfamiliar alphabets. The messages, he discovered much later, were variations on a theme: I am an American. Take me to the nearest Allied military office. You will be paid. Eventually Jean Claude Guiet revealed to his family that he had been in the CIA, but it was only at the very end of his life that he spoke of his first clandestine mission, during World War II. It is one of the last great untold stories of the war. The American military was on the lookout for native French speakers for a secret British special operations commando operation, the secret service ordered by Churchill to 'Set Europe ablaze.' Jean Claude was recruited, and his life was changed forever. Though the human cost was terrible, the mission succeeded beyond the Allies' wildest dreams. Scholars of Mayhem tells the story of Jean Claude and the other three agents in his unit; parachuted into France the day after D-Day, the team organised, armed, and commanded a ghostly army of 10,000 French Resistance fighters. National pride has kept the story of SOE in France obscure, but of this there is no doubt: While the Resistance had plenty of heart, it was SOE that gave it teeth and claws. Scholars of Mayhem adds brilliantly to that picture, and further underscores what a close-run thing the success of the Allied breakout from the Normandy landings actually was.
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+33 1 55 28 38 39
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Data wydania: 02.06.2020
Liczba stron: 272
Wymiary: 13.9x21.4
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Prentice Hall Press
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Tytuł:Scholars Of Mayhem
EAN: 9780735225220
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