This is the true story of four women, members of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), who were sent into Nazi-occupied France during World War II, and then caught up in a web of deception which resulted in their deaths at the hands of the Gestapo. In this book, Rita Kramer pieces together the women's stories, how they came to be involved in such a dangerous operation as well as their experiences in France, and also analyzes the controversial methods of SOE at a crucial period in the war.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A harrowing book about 4 SOE girls (for that is what they were, young 20 somethings), who gave their lives for a better future for us all.
We should never forget them, nor the atrocities inflicted on them by Nazism. This book, like the one by Sarah Helm about Vera Atkins of SOE, is at times hard to bear, such are the upsetting descriptions about their treatment. Sleep at times does not come easily after reading these passages.
I feel privileged to have known them through this book.
Paul White
We should never forget them, nor the atrocities inflicted on them by Nazism. This book, like the one by Sarah Helm about Vera Atkins of SOE, is at times hard to bear, such are the upsetting descriptions about their treatment. Sleep at times does not come easily after reading these passages.
I feel privileged to have known them through this book.
Paul White
By libris
Format:Hardcover
A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm kept me glued to the page. On starting to read Flames in the Field, it quickly became apparent that the demise of the four SOE agents involved was extensively covered in Sarah Helm's book. Flames in the Field I keep picking up and putting down - is it because I already know what happened to them? I shall only know when I reach the end of the book
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Women SOE Agents in France in WWII
25 April 2004
By Bx
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Format:Hardcover
This is an excellent book. It's a well-researched, highly readable account of 4 women SOE agents in France. Although the book is purportedly about 4 women, there is a lot of general information on the SOE, and detailed stories of many other agents who were involved with he 4 women featured in the story. There is also an account of the British secret service' controversial decision to use agents as bait during the war, sacrificing their own agents' lives and freedom to misinform the Germans.
(...) She went to school with one of the agents who was killed by the Nazis and interviewed many people who knew the female agents herself. She's also the one who solved the mystery of the 4th agent, all acknowleged in Kramer's book.
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SOE, WWII British Intelligence underground
14 Sep 2009
By Alexander B. Dewitt
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Rita Kramer gained a position as a well respected historian of WWII espionage with the penning of Flames In The Field. She successfully wealds a complex story of espionage activity by the Allies as well as the Nazi Occupation forces in France who countered the British effort non stop in order to end Winston Churchill's brainchild and put it finally out of commission. But they failed in spite of many successes and Kramer creates a riveting account of this stuggle, back and forth; and she takes the reader on a journey into the fates of the women and men who went into war with only a brief period of preparation, the end consequences being the eventual capture and death of many of the British agents. One of the women became posthumously quite famous as the result of Jean Overton Fuller's initial literary work (Noor Un Nisa), and Rita Kramer follows suit in her own equally insightful contribution to the elucidation of the gripping accomplishments paid for by the lives of the SOE.
I highly recommend this book for all who enjoy twentieth century history, particulary the phase of WWII French Resistance. It is well crafted and based on a tremendous personal effort by the author to meet with many of the players on both sides of the conflict in her search for truth, and as a result she takes the reader into these meetings and renders a remarkable sense of personaliztion of the story.
I highly recommend this book for all who enjoy twentieth century history, particulary the phase of WWII French Resistance. It is well crafted and based on a tremendous personal effort by the author to meet with many of the players on both sides of the conflict in her search for truth, and as a result she takes the reader into these meetings and renders a remarkable sense of personaliztion of the story.
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Facinating read
13 April 2012
By Oscar
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I recommend this book to any student of resistance fighting in France during WWII. I do not wish to offend anyone but there is eye opening mention how the French General staff disenchanted with their government leadership at that time simply did not manage their army allowing Rommel to take France. That is one way to get rid of a boss you don't like.
This book is well written and crafted in a way one does not wish to put down.
This book is well written and crafted in a way one does not wish to put down.
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