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The Guardian Angel - Florian Hollard

The Guardian Angel

Michel Hollard: The Resistance Leader who stopped Hitler's Plans to destroy London

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Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2024
Pen & Sword Military (Verlag)
978-1-5267-8005-8 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
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The epic and largely unknown story of resistance leader Michel Hollard vividly recounted by his son Florian Hollard. At age 42, Hollard was determined to fight for the freedom of his homeland. In the end, he did much more: he changed the course of the Second World War.
This book tells the story of an important yet little-known episode of 20th century history. Just as General de Gaulle did, Lieutenant Michel Hollard refused to accept France's surrender in June 1940. A spirited soldier during the First World War, a disillusioned reserve officer in the Second, he worked out a bold defence strategy to counter Adolf Hitler's barbarity and megalomaniac madness.

In 1943, Michel Hollard learned that the occupying army was carrying out suspicious construction work in northwestern France. His enquiries led him to discover Hitler's top-secret weapon pointing at London; the V-1. The accuracy of the intelligence that Michel Hollard revealed to the English avoided the worst for London. The sinister machines were bombed before being able to do their work of death as planned.

Betrayed, he was captured by the enemy, tortured and sent to Neuengamme concentration camp, then thrown into the hold of a ship destined to be sunk. Miraculously, he survived. By saving London, Michel Hollard greatly contributed to the success of the Normandy landings and therefore the final victory.

In honour of his achievements, a Eurostar train (the high-speed London-Paris service through the Channel Tunnel) was christened Michel Hollard in 2004.

Florian Hollard, son of Michel Hollard, is an orchestra conductor. During the Second World War he was a literature student of Georges Pompidou, the future French President. After his father was arrested by Hitler's police, he joined the Resistance and took part in the Liberation of Paris. Founder-conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Tours, as well as choirmaster of the Oratoire du Louvre, he has been the guest conductor of numerous orchestras both at home and abroad, notably Paris, Berlin, New York, London and Tokyo. To celebrate the historic fall of the Berlin Wall, 250 French and German performers in fraternal union interpreted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, conducted by Florian Hollard. The "Ode to Joy", the mystical and flamboyant conclusion to the masterpiece, had officially become the Hymn of the European Union. An international audience at the Palais des Congres de Paris gave a standing ovation to the symphony, the interpreters and to the renewed brotherhood of man.

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Verlagsort South Yorkshire
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5267-8005-4 / 1526780054
ISBN-13 978-1-5267-8005-8 / 9781526780058
Zustand Neuware
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