Mission France : the true history of the women of SOE /
Formed 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 and Noor Inayat Khan, others have...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | Formed 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 and Noor Inayat Khan, others have had their stories largely overlooked. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 301 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300208573 030020857X |