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Cargando... SOE: Churchill's Secret Agents (Shire Library)por Terry Crowdy
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Well illustrated and a useful overview of SOE, although I could not but feel it was a little lightweight - perhaps that's unkind, given the book has only 64 pages. All too common a criticism of Shire books is the indexing but, unlike many in the Share Library, at least this has an index, albeit not a good one; the very first entry in the index is mis-spelled: Atlee, Clement - the Prime Minister was Attlee, of course. Individual officers named are not given ranks in the index and key words and phrases like Collaborator, Commando, Forgery, Kidnap, Signals Directorate, Wireless Station and 'Set Europe Ablaze' do not appear in the index at all - nor does Yolande Beekman, Billy Moss (W Stanley Moss) or T E Lawrence. It's disappointing that the list of Further Reading does not include 'Ill Met by Moonlight' and there is a half-page that is blank that could have listed a few of the films (such as Odette (1950), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) and The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)) and TV documentaries such as those based on work by Ben Macintyre. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. Its mission was to export resistance, subversion, and sabotage to occupied Europe and beyond, disrupting the German war effort and building a Secret Army which would work in the shadows to help defeat the Nazis. Potential agents were put through intensive paramilitary and parachute training, then taught how to live clandestinely behind enemy lines, to operate radios and writein secret codes. They lived in constant fear of arrest, and of betrayal by treacherous collaborators. This book uses rare images from the collections of The National Archives and the Imperial War Museum to illustrate the lives of the men and women who made up the SOE, their rigorous training, the clever gadgets they used, and their lives behind enemy lines. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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