Shadow warriors of World War II : the daring women of the OSS and SOE / Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Gordon, 1933-2017, author.

Lewis, Greg, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Office of Strategic Services--Biography.

United States.

Great Britain. Special Operations Executive--Biography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain. Special Operations Executive.

United States. Office of Strategic Services.

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

Intelligence service--United States--History--20th century.

Intelligence service.

History.

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.

Intelligence service--Great Britain--History--20th century.

World War, 1939-1945--Women--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.

Military participation--Female.

Secret service.

Women.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2017]

Summary:

They were told that the only crime they must never commit was getting Caught. Women of enormous cunning and strength of will, the Shadow Warriors' stories have remained largely untold until now. In a dramatically different tale of espionage and conspiracy in World - War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines. Sent into Nazi-occupied Europe by the United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), these women helped establish a web of resistance groups across the continent. Their extraordinary heroism, initiative, and resourcefulness contributed to the Allied breakout of the Normandy beachheads and to the eventual victory over Hitler. Young and daring, the female agents accepted that they could be captured, tortured, or killed, but others were always readied to lake-their place. So effective did the female agents become in their efforts, the Germans placed a price of a million francs on the heads of operatives who were successfully disrupting their troops. Book jacket.

Contents:

By all means possible

The clouds of war

The magician's airfield

Slipping into the shadows

Enigma in the suitcase

Agents by moonlight

Donovan's decision

The Russians arrive

Betrayed

They serve alone

Out of the shadows

Afterward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thomas, Gordon, 1933- author. Shadow warriors of World War II

ISBN:

9781613730867

1613730861

OCLC:

945358465

Publisher Number:

99970492902