The Next Moon
By (Author) Andre Hue
By (author) Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Foreword by M. R. D. Foot
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
2nd September 2009
6th August 2009
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Second World War
Modern warfare
Biography: general
940.58644092
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 35mm
500g
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 . . .
When the war in Europe ended Andre Hue was parachuted into Burma. Like many other members of SOE he became an MI6 officer and, eventually, the British military attache in Phnom Penh.