They fought alone : the true story of SOE's agents in wartime France / Maurice Buckmaster.
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TextPublisher: London : Biteback Publishing, 2014Copyright date: ©1958Edition: Biteback editionDescription: xiii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849546928; 1849546924Subject(s): Great Britain. Special Operations Executive -- History | World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- FranceSummary: '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.
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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.
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