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050 00$aD802.F8$bK529 2017
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100 1 $aKix, Paul,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe saboteur :$bthe aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando /$cPaul Kix.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $a[New York, NY] :$bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,$c[2017].
300 $aviii, 286 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill,who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the "ministry of ungentlemanly warfare." With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans' war-time missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucald withstood months of torture without cracking, and escaped his own death sentence, not once but twice."--$cFront jacket flap.
600 10$aLa Rochefoucauld, Robert de,$d1923-2012.
650 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xUnderground movements$zFrance.
650 0$aGuerrillas$zFrance$vBiography.
650 4$aHISTORY / Military / World WarII.
650 4$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage.
650 4$aHISTORY / Europe / France.
651 0$aFrance$xHistory$yGerman occupation, 1940-1945.