The Next Moon - Andre Hue, Ewen Southby-Tailyour

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The Next Moon

The Remarkable True Story of a British Agent Behind the Lines in Wartime France

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» Ewen Southby-Tailyour

Penguin
Paperback : 31 Mar 2005

£8.99

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'A gripping story: There cannot be many clearer or more detailed accounts of the operations of the French resistance, and Hue's death-defying adventures make for riveting reading'
New Statesman

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Andre Hue was something of 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 paralyze 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.