M R D Foot

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S.O.E.

Beschreibung

SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to â set Europe ablazeâ . Their job â as saboteurs, informers, partisans, couriers or secret agents â was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines;

Autor

M.R.D. Foot was an army officer throughout the Second World War, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for work with the SAS in Brittany. He taught politics and history at Oxford University, was Professor of Modern History at Manchester University, and among other books wrote SOE in France , Resistance, MI9 (with J.M. Langley) and Six Faces of Courage. David Stafford is the author of several books on intelligence history, including Britain and European Resistance, Churchill and Secret Service, Ten Days to D-Day and Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943 - 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781847922939
• ISBN-10: 1847922937
• Artikelnr.: 40054132