A Schoolmaster's War : Yale University Press : 9780300259179 : 0300259174 : 01 Jun 2021 : The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own words ?A beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret agent Harry Rée. . . . Memoirs, postwar broadcasts and letters from French comrades combine to paint a picture of everyday heroism, treachery and tragedy.??Robert Gildea, author of Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance ?In a book devoted to heroism in its true, self-effacing form, that modesty seems entirely appropriate, and is a tribute both to Ree and to the son who put it together.??Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times  A pacifist school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Rée changed his mind with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943. He soon won the confidence of local resisters and directed a series of dramatic sabotage op