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SOE: an outline history of the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946

By Foot , Michael Richard Daniell

Book information

Publisher
Random House;The Bodley Head
Year
2014
ISBN
9781448104017, 9780712665858, 1448104017
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5041040 bytes)
Edition
New edition /
Pages
illustrations (black and white), map (black and wh
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. Recruited from remarkably diverse callings, the men and women who were members of this most secret agency lived in great and constant danger. Their job - as saboteurs, informers, partisans, couriers or secret agents - was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines; their credentials fortitude, courage, immense patience and a devotion to freedom. In this classic study M.R.D. Foot, sheds light on the heroism of individual SOE agents across the world and provides us with a spellbinding account of the Executive's crucial wartime work. With an introduction by David Stafford.

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