BEHIND ENEMY LINES WITH SOE

Langue : anglais

Edité par Frontline Books, 2021

1526779749 / 9781526779748

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Hardback. 256 pages with 16 pages of colour plates.Published Price £25 With his special forces training completed, Sergeant Roland Barker was allocated to Operation Arundel as its radio operator. Led by Captain Martin Smith MC, he was parachuted into the Dolomites in 1944. The team's brief was to cause havoc in the area around the Italian border and to infiltrate into Austria.Whilst attempting to evade German forces, Sergeant Barker and Major Bill Smallwood were navigating mountainous terrain when the Major fell injuring himself and thus was unable to move rapidly. Despite their best efforts, both Smallwood and Barker were subsequently captured by pursuing German troops who they were unable to outpace.Barker provides a vivid account of being 'interrogated' by the SS and Gestapo and despite the threats and the terrible conditions, the true nature of their mission was never revealed to the enemy. Having survived these experiences, he was incarcerated in Stalag Luft XVIII in Southern Austria. Ever defiant, Barker escaped by having himself admitted to the camp hospital and made his way into Hungary, from where, as this account of his wartime service reveals, he was eventually repatriated to the UK.After the war Barker opted to remain in the Army, at which point he took a commission. Promoted to Major, Barker became the Officer Commanding 22 SAS in Malaya. He was killed in a helicopter crash in Malaya in 1953, before he could see through his plan to have his memoir published.…

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Titre
BEHIND ENEMY LINES WITH SOE
Auteur
Major E.C.R. Barker BEM and Michael Kelly
Éditeur
Frontline Books
Année de publication
2021
État de l'article
New
Type de livre
Book
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1526779749
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781526779748
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Naval and Military Press Ltd

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