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Recruited from remarkably diverse callings, the men and women who were members of this most secret agency in the Second World War lived in great and constant danger. Their job was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines; their credentials fortitude, courage, immense patience and a devotion to freedom. The activity of the S. O. E. was world-wide. Abyssinian tribesmen, French farmers, exiled Russian grandees, coolies, smugglers, printers, policeman, telephonists, tycoons, prostitutes, rubber workers, railway men, peasants from the Pyrenees to the Balkans, even the regent of Siam - all had a part to play as saboteurs, informers, partisans or secret agents. In this engrossing and illuminating study, the eminent Second World War historian, M. R. D. Foot, sheds fresh light on the heroism of individual S. O. E. agents across the world and provides us with the definitive account of the Executive's crucial wartime work.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780712665858
eBay Product ID (ePID)88979045
Product Key Features
Number of Pages464 Pages
Publication NameS.O.E.: an Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940-46
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
AuthorM R D Foot
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight500 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorM R D Foot