{"product_id":"9780300259179","title":"A Schoolmaster's War : Harry Ree, A British Agent in the French Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Ree, Jonathan, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/06\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImprint: Yale University Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished By: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYale University Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Classification: Biography: historical political \u0026amp; military, Second World War, Espionage \u0026amp; secret services\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780300259179\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarry 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40250307248281,"sku":"9780300259179","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780300259179.jpg?v=1675357984","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780300259179","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}