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Perquin / The Clandestine Radio Operators - SOE, BCRA, OSS

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For the first time, the training those operators followed in the United Kingdom is explained in details as well as the genuine stories of the day-to-day life of five of those heroes.

Category: 1933 - 1945


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SOE (Special Operations Executive), BCRA (Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action), OSS (Office of Strategic Services) - It is important to honour those who paid the ultimate price for Freedom in the battle which was fought on the radio waves between 1940 and 1944: the clandestine radio operators, facing a highly agressive German opposition, the "pianists", both men and women, had a terribly short life expectancy: less than six months...
For the first time, the training those operators followed in the United Kingdom is explained in details as well as the genuine stories of the day-to-day life of five of those heroes. This book also presents the clandestine radio equipment that allowed covert agents to send their messages from deep inside occupied France first to London and then, from 1942 on, to Algiers. Those radio equipment, some of them very rare, are presented as never before in full detailed colour pictures.

Paperback, 21 x 25 cm, 112 pages, throughout illustrated, partly in colour

Author: Jean-Louis Perquin
Language: English

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