Brave Beyond Their Years: Exploits of the SOE during WWII, Paperback - Ian Aitken

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Dramatic accounts of clandestine missions deep behind enemy lines.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

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A brand new wartime family saga, perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Val Wood

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A list of all the officially recognised SOE casualties has not been produced before. The information uncovered by the authors has never been brough...

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The most detailed and comprehensive study of the RAF and its work in support of the SOE ever undertaken.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): ...

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South P...

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Reducere. Little has been written about the six million people interned in prison camps around the world between 1939 and 1945. We are aware that the Allies ...

Between 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 ye...

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Provides an account of the principles and practice of the basic techniques of plastic and reconstructive surgery that various surgeons should know....

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How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range?

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Reducere. Charles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote...

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In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war as a means o...

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