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No Drums, No Trumpets: A remarkable true stiry of courage and endurance in World War II

Door Alec le Vernoy

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#333203-VF37
Titel
No Drums, No Trumpets: A remarkable true stiry of courage and endurance in World War II
Auteur
Vernoy, Alec le
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Michael Joseph
Jaar van uitgave
1988
ISBN10
0718130219
ISBN13
9780718130213
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blue boqards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, map on ndpapers, 8vo.
Samenvatting
This is a true story from the Second World War which tells of the adventures and experiences of the author, Alec le Vernoy. Alec le Vernoy was born in 1918 and at the outbreak of war was a young medical student in Paris. He relates his experiences as a soldier in campaigns in France, Tunisia, Egypt and Germany as he pursued his ambition to join the Free French. He was captured four times and he escaped four times - once from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On reaching neutral territory, he was seconded to a unit of the Resistance harrying German forces occupying France and in the weeks following D-Day Alec was appointed commander of an area of south-west France and was finally demobbed in 1945 as Captain in the Marines paratroop commando. He was awarded 14 decorations including the m... (Lees verder)ilitary Legion of Honour.
Pagina's
320
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,00

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