Mission France
The True History of the Women of SOE
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Kate Vigurs
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The full story of the 39 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 400 agents into France, 39 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 39 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.
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Lily Saint James grew up traveling the European continent, learning languages as she went. In 1938, her mother's abrupt death brings her back home to Washington, DC, and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Lily comes to the attention of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Her knowledge of German, French, and Italian makes her the perfect OSS Agent, and her quick thinking places her as a nanny in the household of an important German Army Colonel, where she is able to gather intelligence for the Allies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book all the way to the end.
- De Dee Dee Kong en 09-20-18
De: Ellen Butler
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Churchill's Secret Messenger
- A WW2 Novel of Spies & the French Resistance
- De: Alan Hlad
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 445
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
A riveting story of World War II and the courage of one young woman as she is drafted into Churchill's overseas spy network, aiding the French Resistance behind enemy lines and working to liberate Nazi-occupied Paris.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what you think
- De Laura Maness en 06-10-22
De: Alan Hlad
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The Best of Our Spies
- Spy Masters, Book 1
- De: Alex Gerlis
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 840
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 757
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 750
France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the liberation of Europe is under way. In the Pas-de-Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Kind of Spy Story
- De Linda Hanson en 01-11-16
De: Alex Gerlis
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Spy Princess
- The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
- De: Shrabani Basu
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13
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This is the riveting story of Noor Inayat Khan, the descendant of an Indian Prince Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, who became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. Born into an illustrious Indian family in 1914 and brought up in the non-violent Sufi religion, Noor seemed an unlikely secret agent. Yet she became the first female radio operator to be landed in enemy-occupied France, and refused to abandon her post in Paris in 1943, continuing her work under extremely dangerous circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fortitude
- De Deep en 11-30-23
De: Shrabani Basu
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The Nazi Hunters
- The Ultra-Secret SAS Unit and the Hunt for Hitler's War Criminals
- De: Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
In the late summer of 1944, 80 British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers undertook a covert commando raid, parachuting behind enemy lines into the Vosges Mountains in occupied France to sabotage Nazi-held roads, railways, and ammo dumps, and assassinate high-ranking German officers, undermining the final stand of Hitler's Third Reich. Despite their successes, more than half the men were captured, tortured, and executed. After the war ended, a top-secret black ops unit was formed to hunt down the SS commanders who had murdered their special forces comrades....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and little known WW2 story
- De Paul Atwater en 10-16-20
De: Damien Lewis
Interesting. Not a page turner
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Magnificent work!
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Very worthwhile.
A fascinating history of women SOE agent
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Before spy satellites and cell phones.
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Accuracy!
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