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No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France
Benjamin Cowburn
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Description for No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France
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The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set about establishing secure networks with the French Resistance. His account sheds light on the views of both the Resistance fighters facing torture at the hands of the Gestapo and their besieged French countrymen. He also gives fascinating general lessons in the art of spying from establishing a worthy target to executing an operation, and tells the full story ... Read more
The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set about establishing secure networks with the French Resistance. His account sheds light on the views of both the Resistance fighters facing torture at the hands of the Gestapo and their besieged French countrymen. He also gives fascinating general lessons in the art of spying from establishing a worthy target to executing an operation, and tells the full story ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Frontline Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
288g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848327764
SKU
V9781848327764
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Ref
99-3
About Benjamin Cowburn
Before World War II, BENJAMIN COWBURN worked in France as an engineer. His fluent French and local knowledge made him a perfect Special Agent recruit. He was dropped into France three times, narrowly avoided capture on several occasions and was a highly regarded agent.
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