The Spy With 29 Names (2014)
“As ever, Kühlenthal accepted his agent’s information at face value.
Meanwhile, on the night of 31 July to 1 August, Pujol’s compatriots in the 2nd Armoured Division finally reached Normandy, disembarking in choppy waters at Utah beach: Spanish soldiers in a French unit wearing US Army uniforms and driving American tanks. For many in La Nueve, including Lieutenant Amado Granell, it was an emotional moment, and they cried as they bent down to pick up handfuls of sand from the beach. In their mind...s the conquest of France would be just the beginning. Once the Nazis had been pushed back over the Rhine, Franco’s days in Madrid would be numbered. There would be another Allied landing soon, they were certain, this time on the Spanish coast.
Numbering some 150 men with Shermans, half-tracks and jeeps, these soldiers were here not only to liberate French soil; they had an ideological hatred of the enemy and scores to settle from their own Civil War. Some were anarchists, others Trotskyites; a handful were communists.MoreLess
Meanwhile, on the night of 31 July to 1 August, Pujol’s compatriots in the 2nd Armoured Division finally reached Normandy, disembarking in choppy waters at Utah beach: Spanish soldiers in a French unit wearing US Army uniforms and driving American tanks. For many in La Nueve, including Lieutenant Amado Granell, it was an emotional moment, and they cried as they bent down to pick up handfuls of sand from the beach. In their mind...s the conquest of France would be just the beginning. Once the Nazis had been pushed back over the Rhine, Franco’s days in Madrid would be numbered. There would be another Allied landing soon, they were certain, this time on the Spanish coast.
Numbering some 150 men with Shermans, half-tracks and jeeps, these soldiers were here not only to liberate French soil; they had an ideological hatred of the enemy and scores to settle from their own Civil War. Some were anarchists, others Trotskyites; a handful were communists.MoreLess
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