The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-nazi Commando
- Autor: Paul Kix
- Narrador: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Editor: HarperCollins USA
- Duración: 7:13:18
Sinopsis
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur—and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain’s Special Operations Executive.
A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat—cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands—from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans’ war-time missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucald withstood months of torture without cracking, and escaped his own death, not once but twice.
The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld’s enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun’s habit—one of his many disguises and impersonations. Whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him.
More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely worked to change the course of history, and inspired the creation of America’s own Central Intelligence Agency.
Capítulos
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001 The Saboteur
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002 Prologue
Duración: 10min -
003 Chapter 01
Duración: 27min -
004 Chapter 02
Duración: 19min -
005 Chapter 03
Duración: 15min -
006 Chapter 04
Duración: 26min -
007 Chapter 05
Duración: 19min -
008 Chapter 06
Duración: 13min -
009 Chapter 07
Duración: 05min -
010 Chapter 08
Duración: 20min -
011 Chapter 09
Duración: 33min -
012 Chapter 10
Duración: 26min -
013 Chapter 11
Duración: 10min -
014 Chapter 12
Duración: 20min -
015 Chapter 13
Duración: 22min -
016 Chapter 14
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017 Chapter 15
Duración: 15min -
018 Chapter 16
Duración: 15min -
019 Chapter 17
Duración: 07min -
020 Chapter 18
Duración: 32min