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8vo., First Edition, with 38 plates on 16 and 3 maps (one double-page) in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. In June 1944 SOE agent Andre Hue was dropped into southern Brittany to co-ordinate and train local resistance groups so as to maximise their impact during the coming invasion. This book tells his dramatic story and covers the detail the Battle of Saint-Marcel, one of the greatest resistance stands in northern France. Hue was awarded the DSO, Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre before the age of twenty-two.After the war in Europe He was dropped into Burma. He later joined MI6 and retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Parachute Regiment. After his retirement he was a founder member of the Special Forces Club. 'A few exceptionally vivid books explain what the life of an SOE agent was like on the ground: George Millar's incomparable Maquis, John Mulgan's Report on Experience, Ben Cowburn's No Cloak, No Dagger and Freddie Spencer Chapman's The Jungle is Neutral. This is the only book I have met fit to be mentioned in the same breath' - unusual praise from the eminent SOE historian.