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SOE - Churchill's Secret Agents

By: Shire Publications

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Shire Library

Last Stocked on 9/14/2021

Product Info

Title
SOE - Churchill's Secret Agents
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Terry Crowdy
Publish Year
2016
Pages
64
Dimensions
6x8.25x.25"
NKG Part #
2147635026
MFG. Part #
OSPSLI829
Type
Softcover
Series
SLI829

Description

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 write in 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.