Lastly, Renouard du Tinel was a giant swinging a short tree and drinking from a barrel, who fought the Moors (Arabs) along the South coast of France around the year 1000.
Eventually members of the Sosies network led by Dominique Ponchardier, the two brothers were arrested in May 1944 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at the Fort du Hâ in Bordeaux before being deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.
After a long recovery, he left for the United States and studied at the School of Business Administration of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
He is the author of Un Uniforme Rayé d'Enfer published by the Editions du Rocher in 1993 and prefaced by M. Maurice Druon, secretary to the Académie française.
Other than this book, Jean-Pierre Renouard is the author of numerous articles published in Le Déporté and other publications concerning the resistance and deportation.