Dead on Time

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In *Dead on Time*, Jean Claude Guiet chronicles his remarkable life, beginning as a 19-year-old Harvard student who joined the US Army in 1943. Leveraging his native French, Guiet was recruited by SOE and OSS to infiltrate occupied France before D-Day. After Paris's liberation, he moved to Indochina, training tribal fighters against the Japanese in jungle warfare. Guiet's post-war career included service with the CIA in Washington. Told with characteristic understatement and charm, this memoir is a captivating tribute to a unique generation whose lives were filled with both peril and laughter.