The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle - Tapa blanda

Bailey, Roderick

 
9781845950712: The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle
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ISBN 10: 1845950712 ISBN 13: 9781845950712
Editorial: Vintage, 2009

Sinopsis

In 1943 small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the mountains of Axis-occupied Albania. They were members of Britain’s Special Operations Executive and their task was to find and arm bands of local guerillas and harass the Axis as best they could. None had been to Albania before or knew what awaited them.

Trying to survive in extreme conditions and formidable terrain these young Britons lived in constant danger of capture and death and were plagued by illness lice and frostbite. Casualties were appalling and most guerillas keener to kill each other than fight Italians and Germans. In his extraordinary new book Roderick Bailey draws on interviews with survivors long-hidden diaries and recently declassified files to tell the full story of this remarkable corner of SOE history and finally settle the question of whether or not British communists in SOE perhaps even colleagues of the Cambridge spies had conspired to betray British interests.

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Born in 1974, Roderick Bailey is a graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and a former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. His PhD looked at SOE operations in the occupied Balkans and in 2003 he was appointed to run a major project to acquire new material for the Imperial War Museum's SOE collections. He is also the author of Forgotten Voices of D-Day and Forgotten Voices of the Secret War.

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Editorial
Vintage
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1845950712
ISBN 13 
9781845950712
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Número de páginas
434
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