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In constant danger, and often with little equipment, saboteur-commander George Millar led his group of the Maquis on a series of cloak-and-dagger adventures in occupied France which challenge the imagination.

Trains were mysteriously wrecked, roundhouses destroyed, equipment sabotaged.

Captain Millar's story is one of resource, endurance and hairbreadth escapes, of astonishing success and only occasional tragedy.

Millar's fellow Resistance fighters include swashbuckling Boulaya; Pancheau, the soft-eyed, brilliant leader; the daredevil Le Frise; the American Paul, whom all the women adored; and many nameless men from all walks of life who lived and trained in the wooded hillsides of France.

Millar won the DSO and MC during World War II. He fought in North Africa, was captured by the Germans but managed to escape back to England in time to join SOE. He was parachuted into France in June 1944 to co-ordinate resistance behind enemy lines.

He wrote two volumes of wartime memoirs, Maquis and Horned Pigeon, then several sea stories (he is an accomplished yachtsman) before researching and writing The Bruneval Raid.

Maquis: The French Resistance at War by George Millar is a 2003 edition published by Cassell Military Paperbacks, London.

It is a near-new 364-page 13x30cm paperback reprinted from the original 1945 first edition.

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