Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War - Softcover

Buch 2 von 6: Forgotten Voices

Bailey, Roderick

 
9780091918514: Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0091918510 ISBN 13: 9780091918514
Verlag: Ebury Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

'The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled one of my toenails out...' - Robert Sheppard, SOE agent

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in World War 2 to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines: in Winston Churchill's famous phrase, to 'set Europe ablaze'.

Drawing on the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive and featuring a mass of previously unpublished personal testimonies, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War tells the stories of SOE agents, HQ staff, diplomats, aircrew and naval personnel in their own words. As the war unfolds, we learn of parachute drops into enemy territory, torture by the Gestapo and nerve-wracking sabotage missions in far-flung climes.

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War is both an incredible account of espionage during World War 2 and a fitting testament to the efforts and sacrifices of a dedicated group of courageous men and women.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roderick Bailey is a military historian attached to the Imperial War Museum and the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War, and the critically acclaimed The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle. He is a graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and a former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Ebury Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0091918510
ISBN 13 
9780091918514
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
productsafety@penguin.co.uk

Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
Dublin
Irland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780091918507: Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0091918502 ISBN 13:  9780091918507
Verlag: Ebury Press, 2008
Hardcover