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Agent Rose: The True Spy Story of Eileen Nearne, Britain's Forgotten Wartime Heroine - Couverture souple

O'Connor, Bernard

 
9781445641454: Agent Rose: The True Spy Story of Eileen Nearne, Britain's Forgotten Wartime Heroine
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1445641453 ISBN 13 : 9781445641454
Editeur : Amberley Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay. With no known friends or relatives, a council burial was arranged. A police search of her belongings found wartime French currency and wartime medals. Further investigation revealed that she was one of 40 women sent into France by the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, Churchill's top secret wartime 'spook' organisation. Her story and her poignant death as a recluse became an international media sensation. Being fluent in French Eileen, or 'Didi' as she liked to be known, was identified early in the war by the SOE as a potential agent. After spending months training as a wireless operator, coding messages for transmission and decoding those received from agents in the field, she was chosen to be sent into occupied France . She underwent paramilitary training and was assigned the codename 'ROSE'. After working in dangerous conditions in Paris for several months, she was captured, interrogated and tortured. Keeping to her story that she was an unwitting French girl caught up in resistance work, she was transferred to a series of concentration camps in Germany. She made a miraculous escape in early 1945. Eileen had difficulty adjusting to living in post-war Britain. After recovering from a nervous breakdown, she devoted her life to helping others and eventually became a recluse. This is her story.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bernard O'Connor has been a teacher for almost forty years and is an author that specialises in the history of Britain's wartime espionage. His website is www.bernardoconnor.org.uk. He lives on the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire border.

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Éditeur
Amberley Publishing
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1445641453
ISBN 13 
9781445641454
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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