[1] Hue's father, also named André, was a World War I veteran who had been badly wounded, having taken a bullet in his head, which remained there until his early death in 1938.
[1] Without a family in France, Hue ended up working as a railroad clerk in the town of Guer in Brittany, where he was recruited into the French Resistance by François Vallée of the SOE "Parson" circuit.
[4] Hue provided information about the railroad time tables so the Royal Air Force could target trains carrying German troops and supplies.
[5] Hue's training reports called him "a very active, energetic, enthusiastic man with a reasonably stable personality, although inclined to excitement at times".
[5] On 6 June 1944, the Allies began Operation Overlord, the liberation of France, by landing in Normandy and Hue's task in Brittany were to keep the German forces there preoccupied.
[1] Hue who was attached to the Hillbilly circuit (network) in Brittany later remembered that arranging supply drops to the resistance took up most of his time while attempting to evade the Wehrmacht, the SS and the Milice.
[9] This was highly dangerous work, and Hue was frequently involved in fighting with the German forces, during which he showed great courage, resourcefulness, and an ability to keep calm.
The British historian Max Hastings in review of Hue's memoir The Next Moon wrote: The Germans reacted with their usual energy, especially in Brittany where the SAS were relatively close to the fighting front.
[11] Hue wrote he been selected for this job because "The men they wanted to organise and coordinate this phase of the war had to be from that rare breed, Englishmen who spoke French as their primary language.
[1] Hue also noted the grim moral arithmetic of his work, as the more attacks he staged against German forces, the more innocent French civilians were shot in reprisal.
[12] Despite all of the stress, Hue found the time to take a lover in form of Geneviève Pondard, with whom he had to hide with in the hay while the Germans searched the barn, trying their best to remain still.
[11] Hue who was leading a maquis band in Brittany later recalled about the Battle of Saint Marcel as the firefight at a farmhouse is known: Now every weapon that the enemy possessed was brought to bear on our front line in a cacophony of shots and explosions which could not drown an even more sinister noise: the occasional crack of a single bullet.
[6] In August 1944, Hue helped execute an operation where the SAS and the resistance took over most of the villages in Brittany to aid the advance of the Americans.
[5] His principle duties were to train the maquisards, through he supervised the blowing up of three bridges in Burgundy to deny the retreat of German forces from the South of France.
[16] Hue in a report was very critical of SOE's security in Burma, writing the Japanese should never had been allowed to ambush the landing zone.
[1] After leaving MI6 in 1967, Hue worked for the British-American Tobacco company in Paraguay, Senegal, and Malawi before having a successful career as a businessman in France.
[1] Hue spent much of the 1990s writing his memoir The Next Moon with the writer and former Royal Marine Ewen Southby-Tailyour recounting his service with the SOE, which was published in 2004.