Setting France Ablaze: The SOE in France During WWII

by Peter Jacobs

During the summer of 1940, as Britain was fighting alone for its survival, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, instructed the newly formed and clandestine Special Operations Executive to "set Europe ablaze." From that moment on the S.O.E. took its own war to Nazi-occupied Europe by conducting a mix of espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance missions, with its F Section dedicated to aiding the liberation of France. The risks and dangers of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783463368
• ISBN13: 9781783463367
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"