The Cruel Victory: The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944. Paddy Ashdown

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      First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2014

      Copyright © Paddy Ashdown 2014

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      Maps by Harriet McDougall

      Source ISBN: 9780007520800

      Ebook Edition © June 2014 ISBN: 9780007520824

      Version: 2014-11-28

DEDICATION

      To the boy in the white shirt

EPIGRAPH

      In war, young men go out to die for old men’s dreams

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