SOE Agent: Churchill's Secret Warriors Vol.133

Informationen zum Autor Terry Crowdy, illustrated by Steve Noon Klappentext On average a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent would be dead within three months of being parachuted into action. Terry Crowdy tells the extraordinary story of these agents, some of whom were women as young as 22, following them through their experiences beginning with their recruitment and their unorthodox training methods, which included hand-to-hand combat and parachuting. Packed with photographs and full-colour artwork, this book recounts the incredible combat missions of the SOE agents from their role in the attacks on a heavy water plant in Norway, to operations in the field with Yugoslav and Greek partisans, as well as sabotage missions ranging from blowing up bridges to the raising of full-scale partisan armies as they attempted to fulfill Churchill's directive to set occupied Europe ablaze.A thrilling account of the experience of the SOE agent behind enemy lines Zusammenfassung On average a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent would be dead within three months of being parachuted into action. This work features the story of these agents, some of whom were women as young as 22, following them through their experiences beginning with their recruitment and their unorthodox training methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction · Recruitment and Training · Organisation · Communication · Equipment · Combat missions · Sabotage missions · Post-war · Bibliography · Colour Plate Commentary · Index

Product details

• Authors: Terry Crowdy, Crowdy Terry
• Assisted by: Steve Noon (Illustration), Steve (Illustrator) Noon (Illustration), Noon Steve (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2008
• EAN: 9781846032769
• ISBN: 978-1-84603-276-9
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 248 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Warrior; Warrior
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Military / Special Forces, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Special and elite forces, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater