Stephen Grady, Michael Wright

Gardens of Stone

My Boyhood in the French Resistance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.

Produktdetails

• Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781444760620
• ISBN-10: 1444760629
• Artikelnr.: 37751427

Autorenporträt

Stephen Grady OBE was born in Northern France in 1925, the son of an English father who was a head gardener in the Imperial War Graves Commission. In 1941 he joined the French Resistance, carrying out missions for which he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, the American Medal of Freedom, and a British mention in Dispatches. After the liberation of France, he joined the British Army and served as a Lieutenant with the Intelligence Corps, before returning to a long career in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, for which he eventually became director of the France area. He now lives alone in Greece. Michael Wright, who worked with Stephen Grady on Gardens of Stone, is an English writer based in rural France. He has published two bestselling books about his life-changing experiences there: C'est la Folie and Je t'aime à La Folie.