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SOE Heroines - The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents (Paperback)
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SOE Heroines - The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents (Paperback)
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Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of
Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second
World War. The youngest was 19 and the oldest 53. Most were trained
in paramilitary warfare, fieldcraft, the use of weapons and
explosives, sabotage, silent killing, parachuting, codes and
cyphers, wireless transmission and receiving, and general spycraft.
These women - as well as others from clandestine Allied
organisations - were flown out and parachuted or landed into France
on vital and highly dangerous missions: their task, to work with
resistance movements both before and after D-Day. Bernard O'Connor
uses recently declassified government documents, personnel files,
mission reports and memoirs to assess the successes and failures of
the 38 women including Odette Sansom, Denise Colin, and Cecile
Pichard. Of the twelve who were captured, only two survived; the
others were executed, some after being tortured by the sadistic
officers of the Gestapo. This is their story.
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