The true story of Secret Agent Yeo-Thomas, as told here, might
easily have been used as the basis for a thrilling adventure tale
of espionage. But as Bruce Marshall, who served in Intelligence in
the British army in World War II, has chosen to tell it, this might
be defined as the factual record behind the melodrama of events.
For here we follow the stops by which the Wing-Commander of the
R.A.F. became Britain's foremost operator. His mission was to bring
unity to the underground forces in France; his problems involved
the control of the Communist directives from outside France, while
at the same time using to the fill the forces of Resistance on all
levels. He was Enemy No. I of the Gestapo, and yet- after being
imprisoned and tortured, he escaped death- and eventually escaped,
took on the identity of another prisoner, was recaptured,
transferred and finally escaped again. The elements of the story
themselves make it absorbing reading, though the telling has muted
the sensational aspects. (Kirkus Reviews)
The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of
Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack
under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a
concentration camp. 'The White Rabbit' was the code name of Wing
Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas when he parachuted into France in 1942
as a member of the Special Operations Executive with the
Resistance. For the next eighteen months he was responsible for
organising all the separate factions of the French Resistance into
one combined 'secret army'. On three separate missions into
occupied France he met with the heads of Resistance movements all
over the country, and he spoke personally with Winston Churchill in
order to ensure they were properly supplied. His capture by the
Gestapo in March 1944 was therefore a terrible blow for the
Resistance movement. For months he was submitted to the most
horrific torture in an attempt to get him to spill his unparalleled
knowledge of the Resistance, but he refused to crack. Finally he
was sentenced to death, and sent to Buchenwald, one of the most
infamous German concentration camps. The story of his endurance,
and survival, is an inspiring study in the triumph of the human
spirit over the most terrible adversity.
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