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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vigurs, Kate (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Great Britain. > Special Operations Executive. > F Section. World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France. World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service > Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 > Women.

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