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The White Lady : The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks Behind German Lines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fry, Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A major new history of the two most important British secret service networks in the First and Second World Wars Intelligence gathering was essential to both sides in the First and Second World Wars.At the heart of MI6's efforts were two key networks in Belgium.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Map
- PROLOGUE: CONNEUX CASTLE
- INTRODUCTION. UNARMED WARFARE IN THE SHADOWS
- PART I THE WHITE LADY
- Chapter 1 A PIONEER OF THE RESISTANCE
- Chapter 2 BETRAYAL
- Chapter 3 THE MICHELIN SERVICE
- Chapter 4 THE WHITE LADY
- Chapter 5 THE HIRSON PLATOON
- Chapter 6 VILLA DES HIRONDELLES
- Chapter 7 POST 49
- Chapter 8 WE HAVE DONE OUR DUTY
- PART II THE CLARENCE SERVICE
- Chapter 9 THE CLARENCE SERVICE
- Chapter 10 THE PARACHUTISTS
- Chapter 11 MILL
- Chapter 12 A VAST WEB
- Chapter 13 WOMEN OF CLARENCE
- Chapter 14 1944
- Chapter 15 V-WEAPON INTELLIGENCE
- Chapter 16 LIBERATION
- EPILOGUE. A HUSH WAR
- List of Plates
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Plates
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-28585-X
- 9780300285857
- OCLC:
- 1561168715
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