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Churchill and Stalin´s Secret Agents: Operation Pickaxe at RAF Tempsford
Bernard O´connor
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Description for Churchill and Stalin´s Secret Agents: Operation Pickaxe at RAF Tempsford
Hardcover. The top-secret agreement between Britain and the Soviet Union whereby the British Special Operations Executive, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force arranged the transport of 34 Soviet agents from Archangel and Murmansk to be infiltrated into France, Holland, Italy, Austria and Germany. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKESD; 3JJH; HBWQ; JPSH; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Churchill and Stalin secretly agreed that Britain would infiltrate Soviet agents into occupied Western Europe. Liaison began between the NKVD and the SOE, each country's secret service. Transported in convoys across the Arctic Ocean and often attacked by German U-Boats, thirty-four men and women arrived in Scotland. To stop people finding out that Britain was helping the Communists, the agents were given false identities and provided with accommodation and training at remote country houses in southern England, including Beaulieu. Codenamed PICKAXES, they were sent for parachute practice at Ringway ... Read more
Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Churchill and Stalin secretly agreed that Britain would infiltrate Soviet agents into occupied Western Europe. Liaison began between the NKVD and the SOE, each country's secret service. Transported in convoys across the Arctic Ocean and often attacked by German U-Boats, thirty-four men and women arrived in Scotland. To stop people finding out that Britain was helping the Communists, the agents were given false identities and provided with accommodation and training at remote country houses in southern England, including Beaulieu. Codenamed PICKAXES, they were sent for parachute practice at Ringway ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781550021
SKU
V9781781550021
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About Bernard O´connor
Born and brought up in the industrial north-east of England, Bernard O'Connor went on to teach Humanities and English in Taiwan, China and Australia. Now living near Cambridge, UK, he has researched and published widely on the social, economic, environmental and archaeological impact of the nineteenth century coprolite industry, the geology, archaeology and history of the Mawddach estuary in North ... Read more
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