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ISBN: HB: 9780300245660

Yale University Press

March 2020

192 pp.

20.9x13.9 cm

24 black&white illus.

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£14,99
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Schoolmaster's War

Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance

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.

About the Author

Harry Ree, DSO, OBE, was a British school teacher and educationist and a wartime member of the Special Operations Executive.Jonathan Ree, son of Harry Ree, is a freelance historian and philosopher. His books include "Philosophical Tales", "I See a Voice" and "Witcraft".