Luc Harcourt

Luc Harcourt was a French soldier during the Second World War.

Harcourt was part of the initial French "offensive" into Germany in October, 1938 while Germany was subduing Czechoslovakia. However, the push was poorly supported by the French government, and the French military could not take advantage of the drain on German resources. Thus, by November, 1938, Harcourt and his unit were already retreating back into France, burning everything they could as the moved.

For the remainder of 1938 and into 1939, Harcourt was part of an ongoing battle against German forces on French territory, as he and his colleagues were advanced and retreated across the countryside. He had many scrapes with death, but survived all of them. In April, 1939, a combined British and French counter-offensive successfully stopped the German drive on Paris.