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Title: The Saboteur
Subtitle: True Adventures of the Gentleman Spy Who Took on the Nazis
Author: Paul Kix
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistance fighter.
A scion of one of the most aristocratic families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in magnificent chateaux 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 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 organised resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans' wartime missions and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucauld withstood months of torture without cracking and escaped his own death not once but twice.
The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld's enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his 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, de La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him.
More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely working to change the course of history.
Members Reviews:
If you like what "the resistance" did against the Nazis, this book's for you. If you like sabotage, this book's for you.
Just started reading The Saboteur and I'm about half way through. It's a quick read but a little bogged down with place names and no reference to major geographic cities/areas/landmarks. As with many books referring to many characters, it gets difficult at times to place people. The reader is mercifully spared much of the subject's terrible ordeal under torture.
Unbelievable bravery
My first thought when reading this book was, "Why hasn't a major motion picture been made about this person?" Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. The author has done a great job of research and analysis and applying what he learned to the story of this brave and honorable man. The book is well written and flows smoothly and makes one anxious to turn the page to read what happens next. I highly and enthusiastically recommend this book.
A tail of true heroism
A gripping and tense true story of French and British insurgency in France during WW II. The true story also the growth of the resistance and the brutal German response. New to me was the high level of.
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Title: The Saboteur
Subtitle: True Adventures of the Gentleman Spy Who Took on the Nazis
Author: Paul Kix
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistance fighter.
A scion of one of the most aristocratic families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in magnificent chateaux 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 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 organised resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans' wartime missions and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucauld withstood months of torture without cracking and escaped his own death not once but twice.
The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld's enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his 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, de La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him.
More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely working to change the course of history.
Members Reviews:
If you like what "the resistance" did against the Nazis, this book's for you. If you like sabotage, this book's for you.
Just started reading The Saboteur and I'm about half way through. It's a quick read but a little bogged down with place names and no reference to major geographic cities/areas/landmarks. As with many books referring to many characters, it gets difficult at times to place people. The reader is mercifully spared much of the subject's terrible ordeal under torture.
Unbelievable bravery
My first thought when reading this book was, "Why hasn't a major motion picture been made about this person?" Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. The author has done a great job of research and analysis and applying what he learned to the story of this brave and honorable man. The book is well written and flows smoothly and makes one anxious to turn the page to read what happens next. I highly and enthusiastically recommend this book.
A tail of true heroism
A gripping and tense true story of French and British insurgency in France during WW II. The true story also the growth of the resistance and the brutal German response. New to me was the high level of.