03622cam a2200337 4500 529077642 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062791320 006279132X e3ea5745-8d40-4e65-b4c0-6d7060743a86 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3241963 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kix, Paul. The Saboteur [Libby Audiobook] : The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando. HarperAudio, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 199MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 199MB. HTML:<p>In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur—and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain's Special Operations Executive.</p> <p>A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucauld escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat—cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands—from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans' war-time missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucauld withstood months of torture without cracking, and escaped his own death, not once but twice.</p> <p>The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld's enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun's habit—one of his many disguises and impersonations. Whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him.</p> <p>More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely worked to change the course of history, and inspired the creation of America's own Central Intelligence Agency.</p>. Nonfiction. Politics. Military. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Hillgartner, Malcolm. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/3241963-TheSaboteur.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e3ea5745-8d40-4e65-b4c0-6d7060743a86&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/3241963-TheSaboteur.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e3ea5745-8d40-4e65-b4c0-6d7060743a86&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)