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They fought alone : the true story of the Starr Brothers, British secret agents in Nazi-occupied France Cover Image Book Book

They fought alone : the true story of the Starr Brothers, British secret agents in Nazi-occupied France

Glass, Charles 1951- (author.).

Summary: Presents the story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces, and two brothers who infiltrated Nazi-occupied territory to assist in recruiting, organizing, and training the French resistance.

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  • ISBN: 9781594206177
  • ISBN: 1594206171
  • Physical Description: print
    xiv, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2018.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-309) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: An unexpected encounter -- Called to the colors -- A beautiful friendship -- "I was a human being" -- A cursed day -- "It literally rained containers" -- Arrests and arrivals -- Avenue Boche -- Word of honor -- Sabotage -- John's cousin -- Das Reich -- The battle of Castelnau -- The Germans retreat -- "I said 'shit' to de Gaulle" -- Starrs on trial.

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Subject: Starr, George Reginald 1904-1980
Starr, John Ashford Renshaw 1908-1966
Great Britain. Special Operations Executive Biography
World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Great Britain
Spies Great Britain Biography
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at Evergreen Indiana. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Greenwood Public Library.

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Greenwood PL - Greenwood NONFICTION HISTORY WWII RESISTANCE Glass (Text) 36626103971248 2nd Floor Adult Nonfiction Available -
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Charles Glass was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News from 1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. His writings appear in Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Independent, and The Spectator. He is the author of Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, Money for Old Rope, The Northern Front, Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, and The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II.

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