Buy this book on-line BINNEY**, MARCUS: : THE WOMEN WHO LIVED FOR DANGERLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2002. ISBN 0340818395.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic front panel (Noor Inayat Khan parachuting) with dark blue lettering and gilt lettered title,with gilt, blue+black lettered spine,rear panel with photographic b/w reproduction of fake identity card used by Violette Szabo; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Majority of light creasing to front,top edges and both head+ foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,without blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a gold+white striped headband and immaculate plain pale beige endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xvpp+1- 380pp [paginated] includes an illustrations list/table - 2 sections,acknowledgements,a note on SOE,12 chapters and an Epilogue,16pp of contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs, and b/w reproductions of documents and newspaper cuttings in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp112/13 and pp256/7 respectively,Note on sources,a glossary,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table and 4pp blanks at the rear of book.
The Special Operations Executive was formed by Winston Churchill in 1940 'to set Europe ablaze'.In SOE women were trained to handle guns and explosives,work undercover,endure interrogation by the Gestapo,and use complex codes.This is the story of ten remarkable women who were dropped in occupied territories to work as secret agents.
Once in enemy territory,theirs was the most dangerous war of all, leading an apparently normal civilian life but in constant danger of arrest.They organised dropping grounds for arms and explosives destined for the Resistance, helped operate escape lines for airmen who had been shot down over Europe,and provided Allied Command with vital intelligence.
SOE women agents came from all walks of life: from the dazzling Polish Countess Krystyna SkarbeK (alias Christine Granville) and the American Virginia Hall,from a rich Baltimore family,to Marguerite Knight,a secretary in Walthamstow.Petite Lise de Baissac lived next to Gestapo headquarters in Poitires playing the part of a quiet widow,whilst twenty-year-old student Paola Del Din was sent to find a way through the German front line in Florence.Hot-tempered Paddy O'Sullivan deflected a German officer from examining her suitcase by making a date with him and Alex d'Unieville feigned madness when captured.
The stories of these women agents - some famous,some virtually unknown - are told with the help of extemsive new archive material.Their exploits form a new chapter of heroism in the history of warfare matched only by their determination,resourcefulness and ability to stay cool in the face of extreme danger.
Marcus Binney grew up hearing stories of Special Forces from his father,stepfather and especially from his mother,who served with the FANYs (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) in which almost all SOE women agents were enlisted.
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