The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies - Softcover

Riols, Noreen

 
9781447237020: The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1447237021 ISBN 13: 9781447237020
Verlag: Pan, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

‘My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish.’ So begins Noreen Riols’ compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill’s ‘secret army’, the Special Operations Executive. It was 1943, just before her eighteenth birthday, Noreen received her call-up papers, and was faced with either working in a munitions factory or joining the Wrens. A typically fashion-conscious young woman, even in wartime, Noreen opted for the Wrens - they had better hats. But when one of her interviewers realized she spoke fluent French, she was directed to a government building on Baker Street.

It was SOE headquarters, where she was immediately recruited into F-Section, led by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster. From then until the end of the war, Noreen worked with Buckmaster and her fellow operatives to support the French Resistance fighting for the Allied cause. Sworn to secrecy, Noreen told no one that she spent her days meeting agents returning from behind enemy lines, acting as a decoy, passing on messages in tea rooms and picking up codes in crossword puzzles.

Vivid, witty, insightful and often moving, this is the story of one young woman’s secret war, offering readers an authentic and compelling insight into what really went on in Churchill’s ‘secret army’ from one of its last surviving members.

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Born in Malta of English parents, Noreen Riols lives with her French husband in a seventeenth-century house in a village near Versailles. After the war, she joined the BBC, where she met her husband, a journalist with the World Service. She is the author of ten books, published in Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, and the US. She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and for several years contributed features from Paris to Woman’s Hour. She is an experienced public speaker with an impressive list of credits to her name and has also broadcast on radio and television programmes across the world.

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'My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish'

So begins Noreen Riols' compelling wartime memoir. In 1943, just before her eighteenth birthday, Noreen received her call-up papers. When her interviewers realized she spoke fluent French, she was immediately directed to a government building on Baker Street: the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive.

From then until the end of the war Noreen spent her days meeting agents returning from behind enemy lines, acting as a decoy, passing on messages in tea rooms and picking up codes in crossword puzzles.
Vivid, witty and often moving, this is the story of one young woman's secret war, offering readers an authentic and compelling insight into what really went on in Churchill's 'secret army' from one of its last surviving members.

'Riols' personality shines through this perceptive, readable account of those on missions where there was never a better than 50:50 chance of survival' Michael Tillotson, The Times

'A moving tribute to the courageous men and women of the SOE in World War II, sensitively told by Noreen Riols with admirable modesty about her own crucial involvement' Margaret Dickinson, bestselling author of The Clippie Girls

'Told with wit, charm and enthusiasm, it's a compelling read' Choice

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Verlag
Pan
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1447237021
ISBN 13 
9781447237020
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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