Books: Family Man and Spy

MEMOIRS OF A SECRET AGENT OF FREE FRANCE (Vol. I; 406 pp.)—Rémy— Whittlesey ($4).

This book is like the first draft of a wonderful novel by Andre Malraux. The author is now, like Malraux, a member of the Executive Committee of General de Gaulle's "R.P.F." During the war, Colonel Gilbert Renault, who went by the name "Rémy," among other names, organized a network of intelligence agents in occupied France. His territory included the entire Atlantic coast, from Dieppe to Bayonne. The raid on the French coast at Bruneval and the raid in force that...

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