Paddy Ashdown

The Cruel Victory (eBook, ePUB)

The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From best-selling author of 'A Brilliant Little Operation', winner of the British Army Military History prize and the Royal marines History prize for 2013, comes the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the Vercors massif - the largest action by the French Resistance during the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007520824
• Artikelnr.: 42370964

Autorenporträt

After service as a Royal Marine Commando Officer, Paddy Ashdown served as a diplomat in the Foreign Office before being elected as the Member of Parliament for Yeovil, serving in that capacity from 1983 to 2001. In 1988 he became leader of the Liberal Democrats, standing aside after eleven years of leading his Party. Later he was appointed as the international community's High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 2002 to 2006.