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Dead on Time: The Memoir of an SOE and OSS Agent in Occupied France
Jean Claude Guiet
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Description for Dead on Time: The Memoir of an SOE and OSS Agent in Occupied France
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a `naive' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a native French speaker he was quickly assigned to SOE and the OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and parachuted into occupied France in the lead up to D-Day. After the liberation of Paris he was sent to Indochina to organise and train tribes in the jungles of the Far East to fight the Japanese. Subsequently he worked for the CIA in Washington. Told with characteristic understatement and charm, ... Read more
Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a `naive' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a native French speaker he was quickly assigned to SOE and the OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and parachuted into occupied France in the lead up to D-Day. After the liberation of Paris he was sent to Indochina to organise and train tribes in the jungles of the Far East to fight the Japanese. Subsequently he worked for the CIA in Washington. Told with characteristic understatement and charm, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750965262
SKU
V9780750965262
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About Jean Claude Guiet
Jean Claude Guietwas an American citizen. He worked for the CIA throughout the 1950s the files are still classified. After that he worked for Honeywell Inc and became active in the Civil Rights Movement and against the Vietnam War. He died in 2013.
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