Russell Miller

Behind the Lines (eBook, ePUB)

The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of special operations in the second world war as it has never been told before--directly by those who took part.

Compiled by Russell Miller from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts--many unpublished until now--the oral history in Behind the Lines follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with the Untied States' Office of Strategic Services and Britain's Special Operations Executive. They parachuted behind enemy lines, often alone, with orders to cause mayhem. Arrest almost always resulted in torture and imprisonment; sometimes in execution.

Trained in the black arts of warfare--sabotage, subversion, espionage, guerrilla tactics and undermining enemy morale by the distribution of insidious propaganda--theirs was a war fought in the shadows. Their activities extended to every theatre of operations: in occupied France, equipped with false identities, they played a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Gestapo; in the Balkans they discovered that the fiery politics of the region were as dangerous as the enemy; in the Burmese jungle, in some of the worst combat conditions of the war, they led native marauders in surprise attacks against the Japanese. From Britain they were supported by a team of back-room inventors who produced expertly forged documents and dreamed up ingenious devices like exploding rats and invisible ink.

The special agents of World War Two really were a breed apart. This is their extraordinary story. In their own words.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466875647
• Artikelnr.: 41131073

Autorenporträt

Russell Miller is an award-winning journalist and author. He was voted Writer of the Year by the British Magazine Editors and won four press awards while working for the Sunday Times magazine. His works include Behind the Lines, Magnum, The House of Getty, and Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy.