No Cloak, No Dagger

by Cowburn, Benjamin; Faulks, Sebastian

• ISBN13: 9781848325432
• ISBN10: 1848325436
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-19
• Publisher: Frontline Books

Author Biography

'No Cloak, No Dagger epitomises so much of what was best in the early years of the British war effort, not just in SOE but in what Cowburn calls the Poor Bloody Infantry and the RAF as well. If there is a better SOE memoir, I hope someone will tell me its name' Sebastian Faulks 'Like my fellow agents. I was to pass for an average Frenchman, while secretly organizing the sabotage of selected targets. For this, explosives, incendiary devices and weapons had to be received and delivered to the right people, [to] Frenchmen and Frenchwomen who wished neither to collaborate nor to wait in misery...Beside the official, loud-voiced, arrogant world of collaboration and the sad, sullen world of official everyday life, was beginning to form the hidden, glowing world of faith and resistance. It was the privilege of a special agent to discover and recruit these fine people.' Benjamin Cowburn

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Fly R.A.F to the Continent	p. 9
First impressions	p. 16
First signs of trouble	p. 24
'Nach Paris'	p. 29
Meeting friends	p. 40
The tame locomotive	p. 54
The 'Victoire' affair	p. 66
Mountaineering	p. 94
Conclusion of Part One	p. 100
Alexandre	p. 103
A munitions drop	p. 120
Lysander	p. 135
Third mission	p. 142
Pianists and mutes	p. 154
Noisy nights	p. 165
Friends in trouble	p. 180
Liberation	p. 191
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