GIGN: A TIME FOR SECRETS
GIGN: A TIME FOR SECRETS

GIGN: A TIME FOR SECRETS

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The testimony of a gendarme who served in the Groupe d'intervention de la gendarmerie nationale from 1986 to 1997. M. Bernard offers a behind-the-scenes account of the GIGN, revealing a world of camaraderie in which spectacular operations follow one another without respite, and where courage, self-sacrifice and respect for human life are the fundamental values.

 

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Michel Bernard, a member of the gendarmerie's elite corps, looks back on his entire career and recounts in detail his missions in the Basque Country, in Ouvéa, in the former Yugoslavia… Everything is described with discernment, simplicity and humility: the stifling sensation of fear, the duty to be done. Wounds, the loss of brothers-in-arms, lack of resources, political dysfunction. In a precise, vivid and inventive style, the author takes us behind the scenes of the "Groupe": a world of camaraderie where spectacular operations succeed one another without respite, where courage, self-sacrifice and respect for human life are the fundamental values. Michel Bernard reveals himself to be an atypical and engaging character. Full of humour and curiosity, he has a taste for freedom and for the beauty of the things of this world. GIGN: le temps d'un secret is the testimony of a "gendarme unlike any other" — a man of action and reflection, a knight of the modern age.
Author 1
BERNARD MICHEL
Pages
280
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
NIMROD
EAN
9782915243307
Publication Date 
01/09/2010