The Old Fellow's War: Edmond Nyst
The Old Fellow's War: Edmond Nyst
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In 1943, at the age of sixteen, Edmond Nyst joined the Maquis, the fighting force of the French resistance. He fought in several battles against the Germans, witnessed many atrocities and was in Poradour-sur-Glane only days after the Germans had executed every man, woman and child in the town and then set fire to the place. Edmund'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. Nyst 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. Illustrated with black and white photographs.