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A fantastic wartime memoir, incorporating the best kind of excursion account with a coming-of-age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. Sept 2011, Halkidiki, North Greece: A solitary 86-year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his recent. He begins to write...Sept 1939, Nieppe, North France:14 year-old Stephen is living with his family, 25 kilometres from Ypres. His French mom fights with her encroaching blindness. Failing to escape the improving German military, his English father can't look after the war graves that cast so heartbreaking a darkness over the region. Stephen and his good friend Marcel embark upon their great excursion: collecting souvenirs from strafed convoys and crashed Messerschmitts.But their world turns dark when arrested and imprisoned for sabotage and threatened with deportation or the firing squad. Upon his release, but still only 16, Stephen is recruited by the French Amount of resistance. Growing up under the threat of imminent betrayal, he discovers the arts of clandestine warfare, and - in an instant that haunts him still - how to eliminate.... Such was the impact of Stephen Grady's be employed by the French Amount of resistance, (especially during the countdown to D-Day and its bloody aftermath) that he was honored the Croix de Guerre and the American Medal of Flexibility.
