A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE - Couverture souple

Helm, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316724971 ISBN 13 : 9780316724975

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 2005

Synopsis

During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France - at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps - some were tortured, some were shot, and some died in the gas chambers. Vera Atkins had helped prepare these women for their missions, and when the war was over she went out to Germany to find out what happened to them and the other agents lost behind enemy lines. But while the woman who carried out this extraordinary mission appeared quintessentially English, she was nothing of the sort. Vera Atkins, who never married, covered her life in mystery so that even her closest family knew almost nothing of her past. In A LIFE IN SECRETS Sarah Helm has stripped away Vera's many veils and - with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera's relatives - vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Helm was a reporter on the SUNDAY TIMES and Diplomatic Editor for the INDEPENDENT before becoming Jerusalem and then Brussels correspondent for the same paper. Now a freelance writer, Sarah was invited to undertake this project by the family of Vera Atkins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316724971
• ISBN 13: 9780316724975
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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