Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a team of Allied secret agents dropped into Nazi-occupied France. When Daniel Guiet was a child, his father had one possession - a tin bread box - that he was admonished never to touch. But one day Daniel couldn't resist. What he found inside astonished him: a .45 automatic, three slim knives, and several passports with his father's photograph, each bearing a different name. EVentually his father, Jean Claude Guiet, revealed that in the critical months after D-Day, he had fought as a clandestine agent of "Churchill's secret army," the Special Operations Executive. Jean Claude was part of a four-person team parachuted deep behind German lines with orders to stop a Panzer division from driving north to the invasion beaches and forcing the Allies back into the sea - by organizing, arming, and commanding a battalion of French Resistance fighters. Scholars of Mayhem tells the harrowing story of their campaign, in the serene French countryside, to terrorize the Nazi occupiers and help turn the tide of war.