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La Guerre D'Audierne

by Robert Manning Smalley

193 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); French language; catalogue #06-2605; ISBN 1-4251-0847-4; US$17.00, C$19.55, EUR13.96, £9.77

An enormous, truthful presentation of the sometimes slightly known to the wide sweep of World War Two fans who are hungry for this kind of historical revelation.

About the Book

This is a large subject, brimming with factual incidents involving men and nations during World War Two. It is built around the difficult times when the people of Audierne and its surrounding areas were frozen by winter's worst, when the huge force of Germans tried to escape bastion in Audierne, only to be confronted with Frenchmen who refused to withdraw... who were joined by unprepared French forces from all over the region of France known as Finistere.

It is a book that deals with brutality, when citizens everywhere were facing judgment or combat... And in the end it is the Americans to whom they turn for rescue in life and in spirit... for it is the combat-ready Americans who come to rescue them from the hundreds of Germans who dominate their lives. The book unfolds with the life in the air between Americans and Germans... it bulges with espionage, the consequences of failure, the giant figure of Winston Churchill, the closed-door history of highly skilled intelligence offers at work.

About the Author

The author has extensive experience in American political and government life. He has traveled to 82 countries. He has been the speaker to more than 800 audiences in the pursuit of public understanding of the US-Soviet relationship in the 1980s/90s. Ambassador Smalley is listed in WHO'S WHO.