The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France 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 evasio Mission France - Kate Vigurs od authora Kate Vigurs a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Kate Vigurs |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
352 |
Rok vydání |
2021 |
Nakladatelství |
Yale University Press |