The Next Moon: The Remarkable True Story of a British Agent Behind the Lines in Wartime France

click here for more details, find new or used items	Andre Hue, Ewen Southby-Tailyour Our price £6.99 (£8.99) New from £3.61 Used from £0.96 Pages: 352 (Paperback) ISBN: 0141015802 Pub: Penguin Books Ltd Pub date: 2005-03-31 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29318

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Action packed (12/13 people found this helpful)

The action starts on the very first page with the sinking of an Atlantic liner and from there we are led, via Casablanca, to the martialling yards of a German controlled railway terminus, para drops, return to UK by MTB, SOE training, para drop back into France the evening before D Day. Hardly a moment's rest!
Well controlled writing then covers the killing of the local Gestapo Colonel to the largest fixed battle ever undertaken by the French Resistance followed by an intensive period of escape and evasion.
Compelling actions and compelling writing from the very first page makes this reviewer wonder if others have openend the book. Or, if so, they have another agenda behind their reviews of what Professor MRD Foot has described as one of the best books (writing and content)to have come out of that period of the Second World War - and I for one can not disagree.
The daily living conditions - yes Calvados and food - are an integral part of Andre Hue's tale and add the human touches to an otherwise frightening and humbling story.

A very slow start (3/7 people found this helpful)

Whilst the story is truely remarkable the prose isn't. It is slow & dreary (the first piece of action takes place around page 115. I was bored by the constant references to his eating and drinking of calvados & cider. Again no reflection on the man for his bravery was immense but the style is dull & often more concerned with the minutia of his daily ablutions.

Living proof (8/8 people found this helpful)

I recently moved to the Malestroit area of Brittany, and it was suggested that I should read this book. It is without doubt the best book that I have read for some years, and the first for a while that I have read every word written, including all the appendices. Having read the book a visit to the Musee de la Resistance at St Marcel is thoroughly recommended - it is much more than its title suggests. I would also say to anyone that a short drive around the area, to the towns, villages and the countryside mentioned in the book will bring every word read, alive. Time has passed, but the courage from this book lives on.

Superb writing on a superb episode of World War Two. (6/7 people found this helpful)

I wasn't going to review the book as the current excellent reviews were enough but now I feel I should endorse the view that this is probably the best SOE book to have been published in recent years: thank goodness we had men like Andre Hue around when the country needed them most and thank goodness we had men like Andre Hue around years later to continue to inspire a modern generation through some seriously-compelling writing.

Sorry, but i dont agree (2/9 people found this helpful)

I only read half of this book I was so bored with the repetative yawn of 'the hero' leaving his men to fight while he ate good food, wines and slept. I'm sorry, but I completely disagree with the other reviewers.This was the most boring, poorly written book I have ever read in my life.

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