The Saboteur : The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Paperback - 2018
by Kix, Paul
- Used
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Details
- Title The Saboteur : The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
- Author Kix, Paul
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2018-12-04
- Bookseller's Inventory # 17438704-6
- ISBN 9780062322531 / 0062322532
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in a magnificent chateau and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucauld escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes, planting bombs, and killing with his bare hands--from a collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with their covert tactics. With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germany's wartime missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucauld withstood months of torture and escaped his own death sentence, not once but twice.
The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld's enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on the way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun's habit--one of his many disguises and impersonations. Whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him up.
More than just a fast-paced, real-life thriller, The Saboteur reveals the previously untold story of a network of commandos who battled evil, bravely worked to change the course of history, and helped inspire the creation of America's own Central Intelligence Agency.
