I Am André

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"An important book and one that is exhaustively researched and powerfully written."
Damien Lewis, author of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 

 

I Am André is an amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France.

The life of ‘Andre´’ Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any work of fiction. His true-life story of derring-do starts as a Jewish youth in Munich, whose family moves to France in 1933 to escape the Nazi tide. He joins the French army at the outbreak of WW2 and escapes from a prisoner-of war camp after the bitterly brief fight for France in the summer of 1940. 

Andre´ becomes a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French whilst working undercover as translator and liaison with the German high command at the Brittany headquarters of the French National Railroads. Summoned by the British, he clandestinely crosses the Channel for initiation and training as an MI6 agent in England.

His network betrayed during his absence, he is arrested on his return to France. Andre´ then begins an even more perilous journey with interrogation in Gestapo prisons and the little-known Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace, before being transferred to Dachau and Allach, ahead of the advancing Allies.  

Many vintage photographs and letters from his agents come to illustrate this heart-pounding story of a debonair young man in a broken world who remade himself as a cunning fighter for freedom.

Details

Publisher - Chiselbury

Language - English

Hardback

Author(s) - Diana Mara Henry


Published Date - October 20 2024

ISBN - 9781916556256

Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm

Page Count - 366

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