They fought alone
Subtitle: the true story of SOE's agents in wartime France
By: Maurice Buckmaster
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781849546928
Subjects: History; World War, 1939-1945; Underground movements; War Underground movements; Great Britain. Special Operations Executive; Great Britain
Description: Ingeniously engineering acts of sabotage, resistance and terror in the face of the occupying Nazis, the SOE dealt devastating and fatal blows to the German war effort - and directly contributed to the rapid and successful advance of Allied forces across France in the days and months after D-Day. These memoirs of Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster, leader of the SOE's French Section, offer an insight into the courageous triumphs and terrible fates of the SOE's agents between 1941 and 1944.--From back cover.
Notes: Originally published: Odhams, 1958.

Includes index.