TY - BOOK AU - Buckmaster,Maurice TI - They fought alone: the true story of SOE's agents in wartime France SN - 9781849546928 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Biteback Publishing KW - Great Britain KW - Special Operations Executive KW - History KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Underground movements KW - France N1 - Includes index; First published in Great Britain in 1958 by Odhams (Watford) Ltd N2 - '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 ER -