Название: Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
Автор: Daniel C. Guiet, Timothy K. Smith
Издательство: Penguin Press
ISBN: 0735225206
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 21,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a four-person team od Allied secret agents dropped into Nazi-occupied France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping German tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.
When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn't resist. What he found astonished him: a .45 automatic and five full clips; three slim knives; a length of wire with a wooden handle at each end; thin pieces of paper with random numbers on them; several passports with his father's photograph, each bearing a different name; and silk squares imprinted with different countries' flags, bearing messages in unfamiliar alphabets. The messages, he discovered much later, were variations on a theme: I am an American. Take me to the nearest Allied military office. You will be paid.