The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive - Hardcover

Binney, Marcus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340818395 ISBN 13: 9780340818398

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002

Synopsis

Shelf wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned, owner's inscription. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

About this title

About the Author:

Marcus Binney is an accomplished historian and writer who is the author of Our Vanishing Heritage, Townhouses, and Airports. Binney attended Cambridge, and has lectured extensively to historical societies in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, and Virginia on architectural preservation and history. He has also fronted a thirty-nine-part series -- Mansions: The Great Houses of Europe -- broadcast in the U.S. between 1993 and 1997.

Binney's interest in the lives of the agents of the SOE is a personal one. His father, Lt. Col. Francis Simms, MC, walked seven hundred miles through the Apennines after twice escaping from POW camps. His mother, Sonia, did secret work with code breakers during the war and in 1955 remarried Sir George Binney, DSO, also a war hero, who had carried out one of the most successful blockade-running operations of World War II in 1941 -- bringing back five unarmed merchant ships from Sweden through the minefields.

Review:

“True-life espionage adventures far beyond any fictional James Bond movie. ” (Times Colonist (Victoria, BC))

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0340818395
• ISBN 13: 9780340818398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320