1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author :
Release : 2020
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sabotage in France by :
Download or read book Sabotage in France written by . This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Release : 2013-10-13
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 334/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sabotage in France by : Bernard O'Connor
Download or read book Sabotage in France written by Bernard O'Connor. This book was released on 2013-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1940 and 1944 dozens of French men and some women were trained in industrial sabotage at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, UK before being infiltrated into France on top secret missions to destroy transport, industrial and telecommunications targets. They included Raymond Basset, Madeleine Bayard, Georges Bergé, M. Bernard, Raymond Cabard, Francis Cammaerts, Marcel Clech, Elizabeth Devereaux-Rochester, J. Forman, John Farmer, Georges, Albert Guèrisse (Pat O'Leary), André Jarrot, Jules Lesage, J. le Tac, Bob Maloubier, Claude Peri, Petit-Laurent, Jean Pillet, Harry Rée, J. Renault, Charles Rechenmann, Robert Rodriguez, Maurice Southgate, André Varnier, Nancy Wake and Pearl Witherington. Numerous other French men and women took part in sabotage activities and their contribution to the country's liberation needs to be acknowledged.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Release : 2014-03-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French industries during World War Two by : Bernard O'Connor
Download or read book Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French industries during World War Two written by Bernard O'Connor. This book was released on 2014-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late-1943 Harry Rée, one of Britain's secret agents operating in eastern France, witnessed an RAF bombing mission on Peugeot's automobile factory in Sochaux/Montbéliard. As many bombs missed their target, damaging houses and killing innocent French civilians, he was aware that it could turn public opinion against the Allies. With the agreement of his boss in the Special Operations Executive, he approached one of Peugeot's directors and made him an offer: Agree to have your vital machinery sabotaged or have the factory destroyed by British or American bombers. To help the director decide, he was offered compensation by the Allies after the war. When this novel approach proved successful, SOE set up a blackmail sabotage committee which targeted over thirty French factories. Over twenty specially trained agents, both men and women, were infiltrated on missions which included blackmail sabotage. This book details their successes and failures.
Author :
Release : 2020
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis DORY/BRULO: Sabotage in North of France, Michel Pierre Gries by :
Download or read book DORY/BRULO: Sabotage in North of France, Michel Pierre Gries written by . This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olivier Wieviorka
Release : 2016-04-25
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 39X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The French Resistance by : Olivier Wieviorka
Download or read book The French Resistance written by Olivier Wieviorka. This book was released on 2016-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out.” As Charles de Gaulle ended his radio address to the French nation in June 1940, listeners must have felt a surge of patriotism tinged with uncertainty. Who would keep the flame burning through dark years of occupation? At what cost? Olivier Wieviorka presents a comprehensive history of the French Resistance, synthesizing its social, political, and military aspects to offer fresh insights into its operation. Detailing the Resistance from the inside out, he reveals not one organization but many interlocking groups often at odds over goals, methods, and leadership. He debunks lingering myths, including the idea that the Resistance sprang up in response to the exhortations of de Gaulle’s Free French government-in-exile. The Resistance was homegrown, arising from the soil of French civil society. Resisters had to improvise in the fight against the Nazis and the collaborationist Vichy regime. They had no blueprint to follow, but resisters from all walks of life and across the political spectrum formed networks, organizing activities from printing newspapers to rescuing downed airmen to sabotage. Although the Resistance was never strong enough to fight the Germans openly, it provided the Allies invaluable intelligence, sowed havoc behind enemy lines on D-Day, and played a key role in Paris’s liberation. Wieviorka shatters the conventional image of a united resistance with no interest in political power. But setting the record straight does not tarnish the legacy of its fighters, who braved Nazism without blinking.
