SOE in France: AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF THE BRITISH SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE IN FRANCE 1940-1944 History of the Second World War

by M.R.D. Foot

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British secret service, formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance to Hitler's Germany. This book, based on a mass of official and hitherto unavailable material, presented for the first time an account and analysis of SOE's work in France. Foot provides some background to the origins and nature of the SOE and describes the operations of agents who worked on French soil. He concentrates on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783314389
• ISBN13: 9781783314386
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 622 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 10.3"