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Six Faces of Courage (Hardcover)

by M.R.D. Foot (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd; Revised edition edition (13 Feb 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0850529654
ISBN-13: 978-0850529654
Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 15.5 x 2 cm

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Professor Michael Foot is indisputably the greatest authority on the activities of SOE in Europe during WW2. In Six Faces of Courage he selects six of the bravest of the brave agents and describes their backgrounds, activities and characters. Truly inspiring reading complemented by an updated introduction that sets the scene superbly. This excellent and successful book gives the reader a real insight to what it meant to be a SOE agent in Nazi-occupied Europe

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5.0 out of 5 stars Valuing Freedom, 30 Dec 2008

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Freedom is a precious commodity which is only fully appreciated when it is taken away. Six Faces of Courage shows the value which resistance workers to Nazi tyranny placed on freedom. Some of those portrayed paid with their lives, others survived concentration camps and, as was said of resistance unifier Jean Moulin, allegedly beaten to death by the infamous Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie, "he made none of the regiments: but he made the army."

The upper class Marie-Madeleine Fourcade recruited resisters for an organisation which reached 3000 strong. When captured she removed her clothes, slipped through the bars of her cell, donned a dress and managed to warn her regional organiser of the imminent danger of capture.

Andree de Jongh, who died in 2007, devised an escape route from Belgium into Spain which safely returned over 700 escapees to Britain. She, herself, was caught while making her thirty-third such journey. Never one to seek the limelight she spent the postwar period working in leper colonies in Africa.

They were quick witted. Wireless operation Harry Peuleve had escaped from Buchenwald when he was stopped by two SS men who pondered whether to shoot him. Hearing a burst of machine gun fire from advancing American troops he persuaded his captors they would be better out of uniform as the SS were subject to summary American justice. As they began to undress he took one of their pistols, arrested them and held them until the Yanks arrived a couple of hours later.

Wiltold Pilecki organised opposition to the Nazi advance into Poland and after hostilities provided intelligence for the exiled Polish government. He was executed in a show trial in 1948 and rehabilitated in 1990.

Victor Gerson managed to pass SOE agents round Europe, despite the organisation being being penetrated on several occasions, by posing as a businessmen. He was extremely astute, able to keep out of trouble by keeping a low profile and maintaining his cover under the greatest pressure.

Updated from the original 1978 edition with additional material about what it was like to live and operate in occupied Europe, books such as this are worth a thousand "biographies" of so called celebrities who owe their freedom to the men and women of courage portrayed in this fine testament to the human spirit. Buy it, read it and recommend it to others.

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