Binding: Hardcover
Description: On opposite sides of the pond Sonia Butt an adventurous young British woman and Guy d Artois a French - Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man are preparing to go to war. From different worlds they make their way to fight in Winston Churchill's secret army against the German forces and unlike most involved in the world's deadliest conflict to date to fight from behind enemy lines. Their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with the Special Operations Executive. Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory how to kill blow up rail lines support the French resistance and eventually how to love each other. But not long after their hasty marriage their love is tested by separation by a titanic invasion - and by indiscretion. Written in vivid heart stopping prose we follow their stories of uncommon courage - as Sonia plunges into Nazi - occupied France and slinks into black market restaurants to throw off German forces who knew she'd arrived while at the same time participating in sabotage operations against them by night; and as Guy in another corner of France trains hundreds into a resistance army fashioning himself a military leader weapons instructor and peacemaker all at once. Reconstructed from hours of unpublished interviews and hundreds of archival and personal documents Ayed tells a story of sacrifice and youthful folly; a story about the ravaging costs of war paid for disproportionately by the young. But more than anything The War We Won Apart is a story about love: two secret agents who were supposed to land in enemy territory together but were fated to fight the war apart.
Title: The War We Won Apart The Untold Story Of Two Elite Agents Who Became One Of The Most Decorated Couples Of Wwii
Author(s): Ayed Nahlah
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Barcode: 9780735242067
Pages: 320 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 5/28/2024
Category: History