Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance Contributor(s): Grady, Stephen (Author), Wright, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1444760629 ISBN-13: 9781444760620 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Military - World War Ii |
Dewey: 940.548 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.80 lbs) 448 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France. Stephen and his friend Marcel embark upon their great adventure: 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, and still only 16, Stephen is recruited by the French Resistance. Growing up under the threat of imminent betrayal, he learns the arts of clandestine warfare, and - in a moment that haunts him still - how to kill... Such was the impact of Stephen Grady's work for the French Resistance, (especially during the countdown to D-Day and its bloody aftermath) that he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the American Medal of Freedom. |