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3) Sisters, secrets and sacrifice: the true story of WWII special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
This is the incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, two sisters who risked and gave everything to fight for our freedom during the Second World War.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Having suffered a traumatic experience in the Blitz, Edie feels utterly disillusioned with life in wartime London. The chance to work with the Secret Operations Executive (SOE) helping the resistance in Paris offers a fresh start. Codenamed 'Yvette', she's parachuted into France and met by the two other members of her SOE cell. Who can she trust?
Author
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In late 1940, a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission. Using a combination of original research and personal ancedotes, Duncan McNab tells the little known story of Mission 101, and how a small group of Australians under British command helped to free a nation.
Author
Publisher
Ebury
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines. This text shows how in the face of extreme danger and personal risk this select band of men and women helped tilt the conflict in the Allies' favour.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Brought up in a rural vicarage, Freddy Spencer Chapman acquired a deep love of nature and became 'fascinated by danger' during childhood. 30 years later, as an SOE-trained guerilla soldier of exceptional ability and courage, the orphan boy would prove to be one of the British army's deadliest agents.
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. These six 'ministers', aided by a group of formidable ladies, were so effective that they single-handedly changed the course of the war. Told with Giles Milton's trademark verve and eye for detail, 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' is thoroughly researched and based on hitherto...
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. These six 'ministers', aided by a group of formidable ladies, were so effective that they single-handedly changed the course of the war. Told with Giles Milton's trademark verve and eye for detail, 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' is thoroughly researched and based on hitherto...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the Spring of 1940, as Britain reeled from defeats on all fronts and America seemed frozen in isolation, one fear united the British and American leaders like no other: the Nazis had stolen a march on the Allies towards building the atomic bomb. So began the hunt for Hitler's nuclear weapons - nothing else came close in terms of priorities. It was to be the most secret war of those wars fought amongst the shadows. The highest stakes. The greatest...
Author
Series
Catesby volume 7
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance. 2014: now in his 90s, Catesby recounts his life to his granddaughter for the first time. Their interviews weave together the historical, the personal and the emotional, skipping across different decades and continents to...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
This is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war. Beyond top secret, deniable in the extreme (and of course enjoying Churchill's enthusiastic blessing), this is one of the most remarkable stories of wartime lawlessness, eccentricity and raw courage in the face of impossible odds - a thoroughly British undertaking. What unfolded - the longest mission...
Author
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death....
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dressed as German military police, they stopped and took control of Kreipe's car, drove through twenty-two German checkpoints, then succeeded in hiding...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The French Resistance began almost as soon as France surrendered to Adolf Hitler's troops. At first it was made up of small, disorganised groups of men and women working in isolation. But by the time of the liberation of France in 1944 around 400,000 French citizens (nearly 2% of the population) were involved. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) set up by Winston Churchill in 1941 saw its role in France as recruiting and organising guerilla fighters;...
Author
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Colonel Richard Heslop, codenamed Xavier, was one of Britain's greatest special operations agents in France, organizing resistance groups to sabotage German operations from late 1942 right through to D-Day. This book tells his story.
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