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Shadow warriors of World War II : the daring women of the OSS and SOE
Title:
Shadow warriors of World War II : the daring women of the OSS and SOE
ISBN:
9781613730867
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xviii, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
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Summary:
In a dramatically different tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II 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 heroism, initiative, and resourcefulness contributed to the Allied breakout of the Normandy beachheads and even infiltrated Nazi Germany at the height of the war, into the very heart of Hitler?s citadel?Berlin. Young and daring, the female agents accepted that they could be captured, tortured, or killed, but others were always readied to take their place. Women of enormous cunning and strength of will, the Shadow Warriors? stories have remained largely untold until now.
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