The next moon : the remarkable true story of a British agent behind the lines in wartime France
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The next moon : the remarkable true story of a British agent behind the lines in wartime France
(Penguin books, . Military history)
Penguin , Spellmount, 2005
- : pbk
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Originally published: Viking, 2004
Includes bibliographical references
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Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to unite resistance forces in Brittany and paralyse local German troops during the Allied invasion.
Though Hue's mission was fraught with difficulty - he missed his landing site, his secret base camp became the site of a pitch battle and a band of Cossacks tried to hunt him down - he knew that thousands of lives depended on his success or failure . . .
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