Description
Object description
Memoir (68pp ts, with three maps) of his service as a wireless operator in F Section, Special Operations Executive, during the Second World War, covering the period March - September 1944 and describing his work with the French resistance in the Morvan region; the memoir provides an excellent picture of the daily hazards and problems faced by SOE operatives in enemy-occupied France, and contains much useful detail on his initial parachute drop into occupied France, evading capture by the Germans, hiding in a 'safe house' in Toulouse before proceeding to the Morvan, making contact with the maquis there, his working methods (with particular reference to wireless communications and supply drops), relations with the local maquisards and the civilian population generally, the organisation of a maquis camp, sabotage operations and the capture of German soldiers, the treatment given to 'collaborators' by the maquis, and the liberation of the Morvan in September 1944.
Content description
Memoir (68pp ts, with three maps) of his service as a wireless operator in F Section, Special Operations Executive, during the Second World War, covering the period March - September 1944 and describing his work with the French resistance in the Morvan region; the memoir provides an excellent picture of the daily hazards and problems faced by SOE operatives in enemy-occupied France, and contains much useful detail on his initial parachute drop into occupied France, evading capture by the Germans, hiding in a 'safe house' in Toulouse before proceeding to the Morvan, making contact with the maquis there, his working methods (with particular reference to wireless communications and supply drops), relations with the local maquisards and the civilian population generally, the organisation of a maquis camp, sabotage operations and the capture of German soldiers, the treatment given to 'collaborators' by the maquis, and the liberation of the Morvan in September 1944.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1995-12