Jonathan Ree

The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own words A beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret agent Harry Rée. . . . Memoirs, postwar broadcasts and letters from French comrades combine to paint a picture of everyday heroism, treachery and tragedy.”—Robert Gildea, author of Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French...

Rée, one of Britain's best-known living philosophers ... has delivered an impressive reimagining of what a history of philosophy ought to be" (Prospect). This fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English presents a new form of philosophical storytelling. Rée tells the story of philosophy as it was lived and practised, embedded in its time and place,...