Description
Product ID: | 9781846032769 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Warrior |
Title: | SOE Agent |
Subtitle: | Churchill’s Secret Warriors |
Authors: | Author: Terry Crowdy, Steve Noon |
Page Count: | 64 |
Subjects: | History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Special and elite forces, Second World War, Special & elite forces, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | On average a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent would be dead within three months of being parachuted into action. This work features the story of these agents, some of whom were women as young as 22, following them through their experiences beginning with their recruitment and their unorthodox training methods. Osprey''s study of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents during World War II (1939-1945). On average an SOE agent would be dead within three months of being dropped in the field. Terry Crowdy tells the extraordinary story of these agents, some of whom were women as young as 22, following them through their experiences beginning with their recruitment and unorthodox training methods, particularly the unarmed combat training provided by the notorious Fairburn and Sykes partnership. As well as detailing these controversial techniques, the training chapter also covers the tough physical training course and parachute training that all recruits had to endure before being sent into occupied Europe. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-11-10 |