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Documents the achievements of Britain's Special Operations Executives and the United States Office of Strategic Services in World War II as culled from interviews, diaries, letters, and first-person accounts, citing their works against the Gestapo and in such areas as the Balkans, the Burmese jungle, and Japan. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Prepared for any situation from averting interrogation through suicide to derailing a train with nothing but an overcoat—and supplied with such useful items as expertly forged documents, exploding rats, and invisible ink—the men and women of the O.S.S. and the S.O.E. were sent behind enemy lines to cause mayhem, often alone, with an average life expectancy of six weeks. These are their stories in their own words.
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