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SOE Hero Robert Maloubier

SOE Hero By Robert Maloubier

SOE Hero by Robert Maloubier


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Summary

One of the last surviving members of SOE (now deceased) tells their story for the first time

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SOE Hero: Bob Maloubier and the French Resistance by Robert Maloubier

Robert 'Bob' Maloubier, otherwise known as the French James Bond and as Churchills Secret Agent, led a life straight out of a spy thriller. At the age of just 19, he escaped occupied France and ended up in England, where he was given intensive training by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Back in occupied France, Maloubiers SOE duties saw him commit large-scale industrial sabotage in Le Havre and Rouen, suffer gunshot wounds while evading capture and be evacuated in the nick of time by 161 Special Duties Squadron. Always at the centre of the action, just after D-Day he was flown back to France alongside fellow agents Philippe Liewer, Violette Szabo and Jean Claude Guiet, where he operated in guerilla warfare conditions and destroyed vital bridges. After another mission with Force 136 in the Far East, the sheer wealth of experience Maloubier gathered during the war made him a perfect candidate to help found the French Secret Service, for whom he proved invaluable. Bob Maloubier was undoubtedly one of the Second World Wars most remarkable, courageous and flamboyant characters. His simply and uniquely told personal account of wartime spent as an SOE agent and with the French Resistance is poignant, brutally truthful, and is told here for the first time in English.

SOE Hero Reviews

This book should be read as an inspiration to all generations...His exploits and those of his fellow secret agents in occupied territory represent a tale of courage and daring which should never be forgotten. This book will make sure they are not. -- Paddy Ashdown

About Robert Maloubier

ROBERT MALOUBIER was one of the last surviving members of SOE. His courage in the face of danger and his determination to survive were simply extraordinary. His story is published in English for the first time.

Additional information

NPB9780750966078
9780750966078
0750966076
SOE Hero: Bob Maloubier and the French Resistance by Robert Maloubier
New
Hardback
The History Press Ltd
2019-04-26
N/A
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