I Am André

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An important book and one that is exhaustively researched and powerfully written.</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Damien Lewis author of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>German Jew French Resistance Fighter British Spy</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I Am André is an amazing real-life story of espionage of courage and resistance and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The life of 'André' Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any work of fiction. His true-life story of derring-do starts as a Jewish youth in Munich whose family moves to France in 1933 to escape the Nazi tide. He joins the French army at the outbreak of WW2 and escapes from a prisoner-of war camp after the bitterly brief fight for France in the summer of 1940.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>André becomes a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French whilst working undercover as translator and liaison with the German high command at the Brittany headquarters of the French National Railroads. Summoned by the British he clandestinely crosses the Channel for initiation and training as an MI6 agent in England.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His network betrayed during his absence he is arrested on his return to France. André then begins an even more perilous journey with interrogation in Gestapo prisons and the little-known Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace before being transferred to Dachau and Allach ahead of the advancing Allies. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Many vintage photographs and letters from his agents come to illustrate this heart-pounding story of a debonair young man in a broken world who remade himself as a cunning fighter for freedom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Any memoir of a WW2 SIS/MI6 agent is to be welcomed as a rarity. Fascinating reading and an important addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in the 'secret war'.' </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Paul McCue</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Executive Trustee The Secret WW2 Learning Network </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'An amazing story of courage endurance and bravery told in intimate detail.'</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>David Tremain</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Churchill's German Spy.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'One feels a great admiration and affection for the person of André. This fine work will certainly serve as a reference and documentation of the Résistance in Brittany.' </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Monique Le Tac</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yvonne Le Tac.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'An excellent biography of a very brave man. A true ripping good yarn'</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tim Spicer</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> OBE author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Suspicion of Spies.</em></p><p></p>