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Title details for Mission France by Kate Vigurs - Available

Mission France

The True History of the Women of SOE

by Kate Vigurs
Esther Wane
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The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France
Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization's F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked.
Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents' missions lasted for years, others' less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.

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  • Release date

    August 31, 2021

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666143935
      • File size: 308159 KB
      • Duration: 10:41:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Thirty-nine women served as British undercover agents in France during WWII. They came from a variety of backgrounds, and their stories are equally varied. A few have been chronicled in depth, but most lingered in near anonymity until now. This audiobook tells their stories. Their lives and exploits translate well to audio, and Esther Wane offers a solid narration. Her tone is generally even with no false theatrics, yet she still captures the sense of danger the women faced at nearly every turn. The author's use of acronyms occasionally hinders listener comprehension, and with 39 stories the work can be hard to follow at times. But both are small problems. Overall, the audiobook and the narration do justice to these courageous women. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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