This dramatic memoir traces Herman Bodson's transformation from a pacifist and scientist to, in his own words, "a cold fighter and a killer" in the Belgian underground, an expert in explosives and sabotage. Serving first in the OMBR (Office Militaire Belge de Resistance), he later formed a group of underground fighters in the Belgian Ardennes. ...
During World War II, the citizens of occupied countries played a large role in resistance operations. This volume deals with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, in which the author himself was directly involved. Drawing on his own recollections as well as his later on-location research, the author traces specific lines of ...
When Nazi Germany began bearing down on Europe in the late 1930s, Herman Bodson was a student intellectual and pacifist at the University of Brussels. As the reality of eventual invasion sank into his soul, however, his passion for freedom overcame his pacifism and with a group of friends he entered the resistance and five years of dangerous work ...
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