Peter Lieb

This workmanlike account of the breaking of the alpine redoubt of the French Resistance deals in a number of verities, but most particularly the risks run by a guerrilla force when it prematurely goes into action against regular forces with their nerve in; some things don't change. The most damning thing in retrospect was the inability of the local leadership and the Free French HQ in London to be on the same page in terms of when to go into open confrontation and for which there seems to be no good answer as to why they weren't; if I wanted to be really cynical I'd suspect a desire to maintain operational security for the forthcoming Operation Dragoon.… (meer)