About this title: 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 as, in his words, "a fighter and a killer". With his background in chemistry, Bodson became an expert in explosives and sabotage, leading a group of fighters that blew up military trains and installations (including a bridge whose destruction killed ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Description: Dj in mylar; 244 pages, A Belgium saboteur in WWII. Dramatic memoir traces author's transformation from a pacifist and scientist to, in his own words, "a cold fighter and a killer" in the Belgian underground. Illustrator: b&w illus/map PublishPlace:... 050200. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TEXAS A & M UNIV PR
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781585442652ISBN:1585442658
Description: New. 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 h... read more
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