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Mission France - Kate Vigurs

Mission France

The True History of the Women of SOE

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2022
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-26481-4 (ISBN)
CHF 19,95 inkl. MwSt
The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France

“The freshness and honesty of Mission France make it an ideal book for taking a new look at the secret war, at a time when knowledge of these brave women’s exploits is fading from living memory.”—Vin Arthey, The Scotsman

Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked.

Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.

Kate Vigurs is a freelance historian, author, and academic advisor. She is a frequent contributor for TV, radio, and the press.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 22 b-w illus. + 1 map
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 197 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-300-26481-X / 030026481X
ISBN-13 978-0-300-26481-4 / 9780300264814
Zustand Neuware
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