Buy this book on-line FOOT**, M. R. D: : MEMORIES OF AN S.O.E. HISTORIANUK.BARNSLEY,S.YORKS,Pen & Sword Military,2009. ISBN 1844158497.
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Born in 1919 and brought up at the knee of his grandfather who was present when the army last fought in red coats,he describes his early years as a scholar at Winchester and New College, Oxford.
He fought throughout Hitler's War becoming intelligence officer in Combined Operations Headquarters.
Later he was IO of the SAS Brigade,a fact he managed to conceal from the Germans after his capture in France while tracking down a notorious SD interrogator.Wounded while escaping,his life was saved by a prisoner exchange.
With his war service and academic record,MRDF was an inspired choice for the sensitive task of recording the activities of the Special Operations Executive.His fearless pursuit of the truth led to a number of 'incidents' but the result was a rugged and detailed account of SOE operations.His knowledge of secret operations during the Second World War remains unrivalled and he shares this with the reader in this book.
Also has acclaimed authorship of the two official accounts of the 'Special Operations Executive: SOE in France' (1966) and,thirty-five years later,'SOE in the Low Countries.' (2001).
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