Bravest of the Brave: The True Story of Wing-Commander "Tommy" Yeo-Thomas Soe Secret Agent Codename "the White Rabbit"

History

Seaman, Mark

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Isis Large Print Books

Bravest of the Brave

Biographies & Memoirs

Isis Large Print

Histrionics: Strange Facts About the Great and Famous

Ashford,Buchan & Enright

Here is the catalog from which real spies once ordered their explosives, gadgets, and equipement! 
Have you ever fantasized about what it would be like to be a secret agent? A super-spy? To have at your disposal the wild gadgets seen in movies like Mission Impossible and the James Bond series? Cloak-and-dagger escapades have been a mainstay on the screen and in literature, but the stuff of these movies and spy novels was based on fact. And the clandestine duties required of covert operators entailed employing every possible advantage. 
Secret Agent's Handbook is the original catalog used by the actual British S.O.E. agents to select weapons, gadgets, and disguises for their secret missions during World War II. The S.O.E. was the secret wartime organization set up to promote sabotage in enemy-occupied countries, with active and often highly personal encouragement from Winston Churchill. 
Following Winston Churchill's directive to "set Europe ablaze," the Special Operations Executive set about organizing resistance in Europe and beyond as best they could. To aid in these harrowing activities, government scientists and inventors produced a remarkable and vast array of devices designed specifically for covert sabotage missions. 
This intriguing collection includes the equipment that secret agents used-such wild devices as exploding rats and Chianti bottles, shoes that leave barefoot prints, incendiary briefcases and cigarettes-as well as the deadliest of weapons. Each item is featured with a photograph or illustration and is described in detail. Also included are full instructions for use and information as to how they were utilized on real-life spy missions.

Secret Agent's Handbook: The Wwii Spy Manual of Devices, Disguises, Gadgets and Concealed Weapons

Military

Lyons Pr

Tony Brooks was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to "set Europe ablaze." After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942, among the first (and youngest) British agents sent to support the nascent French Resistance. Brook's success was primarily due to his exceptional qualities as a secret agent, although he was aided by large and frequent slices of luck. Among much else, he survived brushes with a British traitor and a notorious double agent; the Gestapo's capture of his wireless operator and subsequent attempts to trap Brooks; brief incarceration in a Spanish concentration camp; injuries resulting from a parachute jump into France; and even capture and interrogation by the Gestapo—although his cover story held and he was released. In an age when we so often take our heroes from the world of celebrity, it is perhaps salutary to be reminded of a young man who ended the war in command of a disparate force of some 10,000 armed resistance fighters, and decorated with two of his country's highest awards for gallantry, the DSO and MC. At the time, he was just 23 years old. This remarkable, detailed and intimate account of a clandestine agent's dangerous wartime career combines the historian's expert eye with the narrative color of remembered events. As a study in courage, it has few, if any, equals.

Saboteur: The Untold Story of SOE’s Youngest Agent at the Heart of the French Resistance

Historical

John Blake

The secret war of SOE's youngest agent at the heart of the French Resistance, Tony Brooks, who built a vast resistance organisation in Occupied France that defied the Nazis for two years until the liberation.

Saboteur

A Corner of My Heart

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Book Guild Publishing Ltd

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