The Old Fellow's War: A True Story by Edmond Nyst

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

In 1943, at the age of 16, Edmond Nyst joined the Maquis, the French Resistance's fighting force. He fought in several battles against the Germans, witnessed many atrocities and was in the Oradour-sur-Glane only days after the Germans had executed every man, woman and child in the town and set fire to the place.

Edmond's father was Dutch and worked for the Dutch Consulate in Marseilles, France, where Edmond was born. He helped his father hide Jewish refugees in the mountains around Marseilles. Denounced for anti-Nazi activities, his father sent him and his brothers to the centre of France for security, where Edmond joined the Maquis.

In the Old Fellow's War, Edmund vividly recounts these stories, as well as his later war efforts in New Guinea, Borneo, and Timor, and his officer training in Australia, where he finally settled to become a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia.

He was persuaded to write this book by his son. His initial reaction was to say, 'No one wants to hear about the old fellow's war,' But this true story is about much more than the Second World War. It is a true story of courage and survival. (back cover)