SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944 History of the Second World War - M. R. D. Foot

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A wartime report drawn heavily from personal interviews and wartime debriefings by agents.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Robert Bourne-...

Publisher: Independent BooksAuthor(s): Harry VerlanderIllustration(s): 82 black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2010Dime...

A previously unpublished official history of SOE's Czech section.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): An Official HistoryIllustration(s): 8 p...

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'One of the great classics of espionage and special operations' (Nigel West) by 'the pre-eminent historian of SOE' (Antony Beevor).

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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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Following the success of the }American Servicemen{ instructions, this is the handbook distributed by the British War Office in 1944 advising Britis...

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War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and trans...

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In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War's most daring operations and the fi...

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This account of SOE and its agents in Denmark was written immediately after the war by a SOE staff member. A previously unpublished official histor...

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): ...

A renowned historian of genocide reconsiders French responses to the Nazis' attempt to exterminate France's Jewish population.

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Kate VigursIllustration(s): 22 b-w illus. + 1 mapNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The full story of the thirty-nine female agents of SOE F section who went undercover in France, revealing for the first time how their fates contra...

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