They fought alone : the true story of SOE's agents in wartime France / World War, 1939-1945
Buckmaster, Maurice, 1902-1992,
They fought alone : the true story of SOE's agents in wartime France / Maurice Buckmaster. - Biteback edition. - xiii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
Includes index. First published in Great Britain in 1958 by Odhams (Watford) Ltd.
'Set Europe ablaze.' The order came from Churchill himself. The result was the Special Operations Executive, the SOE. Established in 1941 with the aim of supplying Occupied France with a steady stram of highly trained resistance agents, this clandestine Second World War network grew to become a cricual part of the Allied arsenal. Ingeniously engineering acts of sabotage, resistance and terror in the face of the occupying Nazis, the SOE dealt devastating and fatal blows to the German war effort and directly contributed to the rapid and successful advance of Allied forces across France.
9781849546928 1849546924
Great Britain. Special Operations Executive --History.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
They fought alone : the true story of SOE's agents in wartime France / Maurice Buckmaster. - Biteback edition. - xiii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
Includes index. First published in Great Britain in 1958 by Odhams (Watford) Ltd.
'Set Europe ablaze.' The order came from Churchill himself. The result was the Special Operations Executive, the SOE. Established in 1941 with the aim of supplying Occupied France with a steady stram of highly trained resistance agents, this clandestine Second World War network grew to become a cricual part of the Allied arsenal. Ingeniously engineering acts of sabotage, resistance and terror in the face of the occupying Nazis, the SOE dealt devastating and fatal blows to the German war effort and directly contributed to the rapid and successful advance of Allied forces across France.
9781849546928 1849546924
Great Britain. Special Operations Executive --History.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.