Aborde les différentes missions de renseignements nécessaires, voire vitales pour élaborer toute la stratégie militaire des Alliés à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ainsi que les étapes souterraines de la mise en place des équipes spéciales avec la Résistance. ©Electre 2024
During the year 1944, nearly 170 Allied Special Forces teams were parachuted into occupied France, to assist the Resistance movements and their maquis groups, to transmit orders from the Allied command and to participate in the battle against the occupying forces. Up until now, their story was only known by bits and fragments. The prestigious British Special Air Service fascinates historians and novelists, but the American Operational Groups, the Jedburghs, and the interallied missions are generally ignored by works dealing with the Intelligence Services or the Resistance.
For the first time, the extraordinary - and sometimes unbelievable - adventures of the members of the Allied Special Forces are now told, based on mission reports carefully resituated in the context of the times. The reader, while discovering the special atmosphere present inside and outside France at that moment, will be able to appreciate the courage, enthousiasm and spirit of sacrifice that inspired these men - Britons, Canadians, New-Zealanders, Americans, Belgians and Frenchmen - parachuted to help liberate France.
After forty years of service in the Armed Forces, including airborne troops, Army light aviation and intelligence collecting, the author, Paul Gaujac, is now pursuing a second career as a military historian, specializing particularly in the period between 1943-45 in Western Europe.
Paru le : 20/01/2000
Thématique : Sécurité nationale ou Défense du territoire
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Paul Gaujac
Éditeur(s) :
Histoire et collections
Collection(s) : Actions spéciales
Contributeur(s) : Traducteur : Janice Lert
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9782908182941
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 412
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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