Buy this book on-line FOOT**, M. R. D: : SOE: An outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940-46LONDON.BBC,1984. ISBN 0563201932.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour artwork+photographic illustrated dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear,some light rubbing and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears.Top+fore-edges lightly aged; contents bright,tight and clean.Generally sharp-cornered, bright,clean,publisher's original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-280pp [paginated] includes author's note, 11 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp49-56,pp113/119,and pp177/184 respectively,notes on sources,acknowledgements, abbreviations & acronyms,references and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and double-page b/w map (Europe under German domination - early December 1942.).
SOE,the Special Operations Executive,was a small tough British secret service,a dirty tricks department,set up in July 1940.Its job was to support and stimulate resistance in occupied countries.
After the end of the war it was wound up; it has left a dubious reputation.Though SOE's total strength was never more than 10,000 men and 3,200 women - over a third of them active secret agents - it exercised vast influence on the war all over the world.North American newspaper editors,South American businessmen, Spanish smugglers,Abyssinian tribesmen, Norwegian mountaineers,French farmers, schoolchildren and hat-makers,Dutch printers,Belgian,Danish,Czech and Polish railway porters,Greek brigands,Serb,Croat, Slovene and Bulgar peasants,Romanian, Turkish and Swedish policemen,Chinese tycoons and guerillas,Naga and Kareni hillmen,Malayan rubber workers,Siamese noblemen - these were some of the groups whose lives were affected,sometimes dominated,by SOE.
This book explains,clearly and readably,how SOE was created and run,the astounding calibre of the men and women who fought in it,what tools they used,how and where they applied them,where they did well and where they did badly.Like any other body of warriors,they made some fearful mistakes. They also displayed,to a most unusual degree,the highest qualities of character, courage,and devotion to freedom.
SOE provides background for a major BBC TV series; it sheds also,in its own right, fresh light on some of the darkest corners of a world war.
The tales it tells are true; they far outshine fiction.
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