Description
| Product ID: | 9781803996950 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Jacobs |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, True war and combat stories, History, The Holocaust, Second World War, Espionage and secret services, Prisoners of war, True war & combat stories, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, The Holocaust, Second World War, Espionage & secret services, Prisoners of war, France, Germany, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The dramatic story of the Newton brothers, SOE agents in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War December 1941. After setting up one of the first resistance organisations in Vichy France and escaping over the Pyrenees into Spain, brothers Henry and Alfred Newton received devastating news. SS Avoceta, carrying their parents, wives and children to the safety of Britain, had been torpedoed by a German U-boat. All of their family were dead. From that moment on, the Newton brothers were consumed by revenge. Recruited by SOE, and known to everyone simply as the Twins, they returned to France and waged their own personal war against the Nazis. For nine months they lived on the edge before they were betrayed, and the net finally closed. They were caught by the Gestapo and tortured at the hands of the Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie, before being taken to the dreaded Buchenwald concentration camp. In The SOE’s Brothers of Vengeance, acclaimed historian Peter Jacobs reveals the full story of Henry and Alfred Newton. Drawing on personal archives and new research, theirs is a dramatic tale of courage steeped in vengeance – and of the bonds of brotherhood in the face of hell on earth. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-25 |
