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Mission France
- The True History of the Women of SOE
Engelsk Paperback
Mission France
- The True History of the Women of SOE
Engelsk Paperback

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The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France“The freshness and honesty of Mission France make it an ideal book for taking a new look at the secret war, at a time when knowledge of these brave women’s exploits is fading from living memory.”—Vin Arthey, The Scotsman Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780300264814
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
030026481X
Udg. Dato:
24 maj 2022
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Yale University Press
Oplagsdato:
24 maj 2022
Forfatter(e):
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