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The Next Moon
  • Published: 2 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141042800
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $45.00
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The Next Moon

The Extraordinary True Story of a British Agent Behind Enemy Lines

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2 Sept 2009
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6 Aug 2009
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Special Operations Executive. Behind the lines in wartime France

Andre Hue was 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 paralyse 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 . . .
  • Published: 2 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141042800
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the authors

Ewen Southby-Tailyour

Ewen Southby-Tailyour is a military historian and retired Royal Marines Lieutenant Colonel. He has seen action in the Middle East himself, leading Commando troops in Aden, and Arab and Baluchi troops in Dhofar - for which he was awarded the Sultan of Muscat's Bravery Medal. He also fought in the Falklands war for which he was appointed an OBE. As a trusted insider he has had full access to the men who make up 3 Commando Brigade.
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