| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Texas A & M University military history series ; 35 |
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Texas A & M University military history series ; 35.
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| Contents |
Darkening skies, the prelude to violence -- Moving toward the fray -- Short journal of a war medic -- Sojourn in France -- Resisting with bare hands -- Protected by a gun -- The birth of Service Hotton -- Only the beginning of the end -- Tragedy -- In grief and wrath -- Baclain under fire, and a revenge -- Verviers -- Foxes and hounds -- Debriefing, special force -- De Zitter and others -- Christmas in Bastogne, December, 1944 -- New Year, 1945 -- Victory |
| Summary |
As German presure on Europe escalated in the late 1930s, a young Belgian pacifist completing his Ph. D. in chemistry watched with horror the preparation for the inevitable invasion of his country. In the face of advancing German troops, his passion for freedom and his growing hatred of Hitler led him and a group of friends into the resistance movement and five years of privation, danger and, for some, torture and death at the hands of the Gestapo |
| Analysis |
World War 2 Resistance movements |
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Belgium |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Bodson, Herman, 1912-
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| SUBJECT |
Bodson, Herman, 1912- fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Belgian
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Guerrillas -- Belgium -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Guerrillas
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War -- Underground movements
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Verzet.
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Belgium
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmidt, Richard A., 1946-
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| LC no. |
94025762 |
| ISBN |
0585173893 |
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9780585173894 |
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