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SOE Heroines: The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents

Bernard O'Connor

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Description:Nearly 40 female agents were sent out by the French section of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. 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 organizations—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 Cécile Pichard. Of the 12 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with SOE Heroines: The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents. To get started finding SOE Heroines: The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Nearly 40 female agents were sent out by the French section of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. 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 organizations—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 Cécile Pichard. Of the 12 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with SOE Heroines: The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents. To get started finding SOE Heroines: The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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