Alec Le Vernoy is a twenty-year old from France who was in the army with the mountaineers group. He was a man who spent very much time walking through snow at high altitudes in the ice capped mountains. While the mountains stood in the center of the world war two they were untouchable all through the war. It was only when Alec descended the peak down into the terrain of mankind that the hell of war was able to exist. Alec was sent with a column of French troops on school busses painted olive green to the battlefront of France and Germany while the German Airforce was dominating the airspace and decimating every living thing in sight along the roadway. While civilians and soldiers were retreating from the German offensive in the north of France the French government was giving orders for troop reinforcement. Alec knew that the Germans were crushing everything and exterminating while the French government was frolicking in fakery but Alec knew among the men surrounding him he was one of the strongest. He felt compelled to ride along with the other soldiers, to take the ride into the fray despite the death charade it was known to be. What other activity could a man with his skill and strength do in a time like this other than be there precisely. He did not know who to be other than this. The onslaught of air raids forced the French army to retreat and surrender. He carried messages to the French front on motorcycle until he was ambushed and taken as prisoner of war. Becoming trapped has never hindered his will to strive to the fore beyond where other men have tread. Alec never allows himself to be kept imprisoned and he never stops breaking limits. He immediately convinces several other selected men in the prisoner of war camp that it is imperative to escape and the escape must be done at the most immediate opportunity. Alec is not a hiding sneak he is storm. He looks for the weakness of other men and storms men. His first thought was not to cut the fence and evade the watchtowers, his first thought was, where is the camp commander and how can I overwhelm him. Alec with a handful of prisoners of war who were officers wait for the camp commander to arrive at his scheduled time. They swarm his car, smashing the driver and guards, stole the commanders gun and the commanders car and drove out the front gate. Alec gets back behind the French front line into safety and is redeployed later to Africa. He thought if he volunteered to go to Africa there would be more freedom for himself than if he were to stay in France pinned into a small region by the overwhelming firepower and mechanized force of the German army. Before he sailed to Africa he was already planning his defection from the army group to join partisan units which were independent of the French government. He wanted to be a free range soldier uncontrolled by the ambitions of Generals territorial exploits. Once reaching Africa with his army unit Alec acquires every navigational chart and expertise from the sailor officers for his secret plan to do something other men would not be capable to imagine possible for themselves. Alec planned to kayak across the Mediterranean sea from Algeria back to mainland Europe undetected, 300 kilometers. He knows what it takes and he has what it takes. Other men do not. After 8 days of paddling on the sea Alec reaches Spain, finds a military barracks and asks for the commander to let him join their fighting units. The official contacts there insist that there is no place for him in Europe and he should be sent back to the battlefront in Africa in a different role, as a secret reconnaissance officer. He returned to his original fighting unit and awaited secret orders from the British liaison in Spain. The orders never came and after several months Alec decided to abandon the army once again to find a better liaison for British intelligence. He befriended a rich man in Algeria and planned to sail to Europe incognito once again, aboard a fishing vessel. It was here that local police ambushed the group preparing to depart on the water vessel and once again Alec was taken as prisoner of war. With the coordination of other men inside the prison Alec tries to convince the prison warden to grand his freedom while simultaneously forging a key and making an escape plan. On the day when the violent prison break is ready to be executed he speaks to the prison warden a final time and is given official documents for his freedom along with his comrades. Once released the group resume the former activity. The rich friend who had the sailing vessel and was captured along with Alec in the ambush had additionally some contact with British intelligence which determined to employ them as spies in Africa rather than to employ them in their European homeland. Alec agrees to stay here on the other side of the Mediterranean sea and put his skills to effect rather than seek further connections in the hope of working in the war effort on European ground. The first task was to visually gather all details about the enemy size and strength at a specific staging location, an important port of landing for the enemy logistical supply. Every day he crosses much ground by foot to observe all activity surrounding the enemy base at the port. He reports names of ships, cargo, planes, insignias on uniforms, befriending dock workers, extracting detailed information about the preparations of enemy troops. He develops strong association with an informant of ship traffic undercover. In a vital link for the ship traffic from the canal to the lake at Tunisia which reinforces the bridgehead at the pivotal war front in Sicily Alec becomes key to victory. With this information massive and long enduring sabotage is wrecked on the German reinforcement to the Italian campaign and with the loss of Italy the Germans begin their collapse into defeat. As the German army capitulates in Tunisia and in Italy, being inflicted insurmountable damages by the spy-work of Alec and the coordinated Allies targeting based on this reconnaissance the Germans desperately bear down on the spy rings in Africa finally uncovering the members of Alec’s telegraph team. The team disappears and Alec integrates with the enemy hospital to blend himself into the chaos of the new phase of war which dramatically appeared. The port at Tunis was being bombarded by Allies and the German army was preparing a withdraw from Africa. He stayed with the German officers in raid shelters and volunteered for work using false documents. Due to his character he acquired a role as interpreter for a German admiral where he was at the center of enemy military operations once again. The Admiral had Alec accompany him everywhere. He had access to the offices, the documents, and he transmitted all of the information daily to his British contacts with the Allies using a newly acquired telegraph. Massive flow of information about enemy size and strength comes from Alec with details of the mechanized power which would cause long enduring consequence for the effectivity of the German generals in the theatre of war when the information leaves Africa and gets into the Allies army headquarters. Coordinated offensives using the intelligence transmitted from Alec capitulates the German generals again and again sending them into enormous retreats. Alec begins to lead a small commando group on sabotage missions and returns undercover in the daylight to his deskwork for the enemy Admiral. After massive damages the Germans begin to tighten the investigation around the spy group again and the group decides to sail a vessel across the Mediterranean sea and exit the war theatre. They cross the sea from Tunisia to the island of Malta seven days through a storm on a water logged tiny vessel with lowest visibility and high risk of becoming lost at sea. Arriving in Malta they learn of the smashing success that their reconnaissance work has afforded the war effort for the Allies and fly with a massive air bridge from the island back to mainland Europe. The war had not ended and the Allies set Alec to another task beyond the limit of the normal man. He is asked to go to Africa again, this time to Cairo. Finally after so many years Alec is integrated with the American army, under General Eisenhower. The request which he had made so long ago was finally honored but only in a way to exploit every strength possessed by Alec, he was part of the army he had longed for but returned to the most dangerous battlefront. 1943 Alec with special forces under the command of Eisenhower advance on Germans in Tunis, the same city where Alec had for so long sat undercover in a German uniform with the German Admiral reporting by telegraph enemy logistical movements. Many successful offensives send General Rommel’s army to retreat. Alec becomes injured in a raid on an enemy camp, falls unconscious and is medically evacuated. In the hospital for one week he reconnects with his drive for the reconnaissance work and volunteers to return undercover to Tunis. At this time the undercover intelligence group had stopped transmitting and their fate was unknown. He arrived with money and new radio frequencies prepared to re-establish the spy network in Tunis as before and recovering his previous contacts for information on enemy troop movement. With careful attention to defensiveness in transmitting out the information Alec continued the reconnaissance. He was uncovered after some time as a spy in German uniform and captured by Gestapo. In prison he found other members of his intelligence cell and the resistance group. Germans evacuated these prisoners of war by airplane to Italy after several months and they were taken to Auschwitz. In Auschwitz Alec used his connection to a family friend to gain work in the hospital camp in several different departments, bearing witness of different camp blocks. He volunteered often for different work details and therefore saw many of the work efforts that the Germans were doing in Auschwitz which were otherwise unknown to other inmates. After several months Alec forged a plan of escape from the Auschwitz extermination camp. As the Russian army was advancing toward Auschwitz Alec was able to convince a German guard in the concentration camp to assist himself and a friend escape before the oncoming evacuation of the Auschwitz camp. On the day of the evacuation when tens of thousands of prisoners of Auschwitz where departing in columns on the famous death march Alec was changed into German officer uniform walking out the front gate during all of the confusion of the movement. Months of staying secretly in Germany as the city of Berlin was encircled and defeated Alec waits there under the thunder of bombs until the very last days before escaping the city and hiding in the forest. As Allies gained territory, crossing the river Rhine, Alec took a train ride home to France, stopping in liberated Paris to search for surviving friends and family. Looking for an associate who can help him leave France and go to London, England. He gains contact through the embassy with resistance leaders in south France who are working to push the last of the German army units out of occupied France. After many months of sabotage raids on German forces the Free French Government calls Alec and the resistance leaders to tell that General de Gaulle and Leclerc have liberated the cities and they are ordered to go there and to be the first official representatives. France celebrated and French flags flew once again in France. Alec was appointed as a commander of a region of France with full authority to hunt down all fleeing war criminals. He assembled a team and cooperated all assets of police, officials, border agents in collaboration for hunting the retreating associates of the Germans. In combat becoming mortally wounded Alec is 25 years old in a hospital bed agonized and very immobile during the last month of world war two where he gets news that Germany surrendered and the war is finished. His demobilization papers come to him and he is overwhelmed by a feeling of nothingness now that his reign of combat abruptly stopped. He had been nobody when he entered the war and he was now nobody once again as he exited it. There were no heralds to praise his extraordinary accomplishments. Never had he heard them play to him the drums of war nor the trumpets of glory for all the time he survived the raging fire of war which killed millions of men.
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