review by Maggie Perkovic read live on bookshow 23rd May 2013
This is a well
written and exciting book about a young man who is thrown into
World War two
and takes a brave and daring role in the Resistance before returning
to this
Country to serve with the SOE, where he missed his landing site, was
involved
in a pitched battle and was hunted by Cossacks, knowing how many
lives depended
on him, he battled on and fought courageously.
After the
war he became a M16 officer and worked in Phno Penh where he met his
wife
Maureen, he now runs the Special Forces Club.
There are lots of
pictures and maps to interest, and in the opening chapters he is
torpedoed on
board his ship La Pallice, escaping with nothing, not even clothes.
He calls
for his brother Jean, who is also serving on board, and worries about his
now
widowed mother, who returned to France after the death of her English
husband.
They both survive luckily, and are reunited with their mother and
from there they
start their amazing adventures.
Andre Hue was only fifteen
when he joined up, and he certainly lived a very exciting
and incredibly
brave life until he finally retired from his adventures and settled in
this
country.
Well recommmended to all who enjoy a "ripping yarn". Maggie
Perkovic.
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