Shadows in the Fog: The True Story of Major Suttill and the Prosper French Resistance Network

Francis J Suttill

ISBN 10: 0750955910 / ISBN 13: 9780750955911

Published by The History Press, 2014

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INSCRIBED/SIGNED COPY The History Press, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, 2014. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Author's inscription to half title page. Black cloth. Gilt lettering and gilt publisher's device to spine. Frontispiece. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Dustjacket. Top edge of lower board lightly bumped. 1 cm and 2 cm closed tears to top edge of rear panel of dustjacket. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 3275

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Title: Shadows in the Fog: The True Story of Major ...

Publisher: The History Press

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

In May 1940, Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and after being trained during the summer of 1942, Suttill was chosen to create a new resistance network in northern France, based in Paris, with the operational name Physician. His code name was Prosper, and his assumed identity was François Desprées. The circuit of agents grew fast until June 1943, when the Gestapo discovered letters, instructions, crystal sets, and addresses in a car, and false ID papers in an apartment. Over the next three months, more then 80 agents died or were killed, mostly in concentration camps. Major Suttill DSO would be killed in Sachsenhausen in May 1945. Rumors of betrayal by MI6, even of the involvement of Winston Churchill, have abounded ever since. For the first time, Major Suttill’s son tells the whole story of the tragedy, basing his meticulous research on primary sources.

About the Author:

Francis J. Suttill wrote the Special Operations Executive's "Prosper Disaster" of 1943 with Prof MRD Foot, Intelligence, and National Security. He has interviewed contemporary witnesses and photographed the locations of the drama.