Churchill's White Rabbit: The True Story of a Real-Life James Bond - Couverture rigide

Jackson, Sophie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0752467484 ISBN 13 : 9780752467481

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Forest Yeo-Thomas GC was one of the bravest of the brave. A fluent French-speaker, he joined SOE and was parachuted into occupied France three times to work with the Resistance. Appalled by the lack of help the British were providing, he managed to arrange a five-minute meeting with Winston Churchill, during which he persuaded him to do more. On his third mission he was betrayed and captured by the Gestapo; he suffered horrendous torture before being sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, from where he eventually managed to escape, making it back to Allied lines shortly before the end of the war. Sophie Jackson’s biography reveals new information about how the torture affected Yeo-Thomas, the state of SOE-Resistance co-operation, Gestapo typhus experiments at Buchenwald and how ‘White Rabbit’, Yeo-Thomas, provided the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s famous secret agent, James Bond.

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À propos de l?auteur

SOPHIE JACKSON has worked as a freelance writer specialising in historical subjects. She is widely published in magazines across the UK and US, including the Daily Mirror, Antiques Info Magazine, Your Family Tree, Your Family History and Family History Monthly. She is the author of Churchill’s Unexpected Guests, Churchill’s White Rabbit and SOE’s Balls of Steel, among many others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752467484
• ISBN 13: 9780752467481
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible