The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive
by Marcus Binney
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Considers the contributions of World War II female secret agents, noting their experiences as undercover anti-Nazi operatives, weapons specialists, and prisoners of war, profiling ten courageous women from all walks of life.Tags
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Amazing stories of some of the women agents who worked for Churchill's SOE in the Second World War. These remarkable women risked their lives every time they parachuted into France as wireless operators, couriers or in whatever way they could, to help members of the Resistance fight against Nazi Germany. Some made it safely back to England , only to return again and again, others didn't and were executed. True, incredible accounts of immense courage and bravery.
Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed in 1940 in Britain by the Churchill government. SOE women were trained to handle guns, explosives, and to work undercover and endure torture if caught. Binney tells the stories of ten such women dropped behind enemy lines in Europe during World War II.
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Marcus Binney is an accomplished historian and writer Binney attended Cambridge, and has lectured extensively to historical societies in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, and Virginia on architectural preservation and history. He has also fronted a thirty-nine-part series -- Mansions: The Great Houses of Europe -- broadcast in the U.S. between 1993 show more and 1997. Binney's interest in the lives of the agents of the SOE is a personal one. His father, Lt. Col. Francis Simms, MC, walked seven hundred miles through the Apennines after twice escaping from POW camps. His mother, Sonia, did secret work with code breakers during the war and in 1955 remarried Sir George Binney, DSO, also a war hero, who had carried out one of the most successful blockade-running operations of World War II in 1941 -- bringing back five unarmed merchant ships from Sweden through the minefields show less
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- The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive; The Women Who Lived for Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII; The Women Who Lived For Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War
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- 2002 (UK) (UK)
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- Vera Atkins; Noor Inayat Khan; Violette Szabo; Christine Granville (Krystyna Skarbek); Virginia Hall; Marguerite Knight (show all 14); Lise de Baissac; Paola Del Din; Paddy O'Sullivan; Alix d'Unienville; Vera Leigh; Yvonne Rudellat; Leia Karayanni; Nancy Wake
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- World War II
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- English
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