Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE Vigurs Kate
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…
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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 ScotsmanFormed 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
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