New Publication from Rene Defourneaux
Published in 2010:
The Bark of the Buceros
A fictional story of survival and resistance in the jungles of Indochina.
Pulished in 2009:
The Raven Dropped His Cheese
The
Raven Drops his Cheese is a story of two Alsatian brothers who had joined the
French Army prior to 1939. When France capitulated they were separated. One, Chris
deserted and escaped to occupied France where he was hired as an interpreter by
the civil control of the occupation forces, The other brother, Sépi was recruited
to work for the Vichy government and involved in the return of French prisoners.
With two other young men he managed to escape from Vichy France by crossing the
Pyrenees into Spain where, with the help of an American reporter, all three reached
England where they were trained by the Allied intelligence organizations. Sepi
was sent back to France to lead a resistance group. Through his contacts he discovers
that a member of his net sent to England for training was actually a German Agent.
After his net was partially destroyed he joined an associated group close to his
home town and was able to rescue his mother who had been arrested by the French
Milice. As a French officer Chris returned to his home town after its liberation,
but was accused of collaboration with the enemy and faced a court martial. Fortunately
the testimony of a priest and of his brother saved him.
The
Winking Fox
Twenty-Two
Years in Military Intelligence
Captivating self-account of an US Army
Officer who as a W.W.II SOE/OSS agent parachuted into German occupied France,
and subsequently into Japaneese held Indochina to help Ho Chi Minh and General
Vo Nguyên Giap. After W.W.II. and a brief period as a civilian, he was recalled
to active duty during the cold war. He described vividly his twenty years as an
intelligence officer with assignments in the USA, Europe, and Far East until his
retirement in 1965. - Read more about this book
The
Tracks of the Fox
Uncovering
Secrets of Wartime Covert Operations
The author
of The Winking Fox details his efforts to locate the members of the French resistance
group he helped during W.W.II. In the process he discovered the crew of the B-24
who dropped him in the wrong place, and he revealed the suffering of those who
had helped British and US agents in the hands of French communists. He describes
the surrender of a Nazi commander to his friend operating next to his sector,
and the fate of a French woman who spent two years alone in the Jungles of Indochina.
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