SOE : an outline history of the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946

著者

• Foot, M. R. D. (Michael Richard Daniell)

書誌事項

SOE : an outline history of the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946

M.R.D. Foot ; with an introduction by David Stafford

Pimlico, 1999

• : pbk

注記

"First published in Great Britain by the British Broadcasting Corporation 1984"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-387) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department, set up in July 1940. Recruited from remarkably diverse callings, the men and women who were members of this most secret agency in the Second World War lived in great and constant danger. Their job was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines; their credentials fortitude, courage, immense patience and a devotion to freedom. The activity of the SOE was world-wide. Abyssinian tribesmen, French farmers, exiled Russian grandees, coolies, smugglers, printers, policemen, telephonists, tycoons, prostitutes, rubber workers, railwaymen, peasants from the Pyranees to the Balkans, even the regent of Siam - all had a part to play as saboteurs, informers, partisans or secret agents. In this engrossing and illuminating study, the eminent Second World War historian, M.R.D. Foot, sheds light on the heroism of individual SOE agents across the world and provides us with the definitive account of the Executive's crucial wartime work. With an introduction by David Stafford.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BD05906124
• ISBN:
  • 9780712665858
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xxii, 401 p., [24] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 940.548641
• 件名:
  • FREE : Great Britain. Special Operations Executive
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain