Author: BUCKMASTER Maurice
Title: Specially Employed. The Story of British Aid to French Patriots of the Resistance. IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: Batchworth Press,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 17 plates on 14, 2 illustrations (one full-page) and full-page map in the text; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. One of the earliest separate publications on the activities of Special Operations Executive by the Head of French Section. 'I do not claim that the incidents described in these pages are completely factually accurate' (Preface). 'Quite so' responds Foot, although he is also the first to recognise the restrictions placed upon the author at the time. Enser, p.410; Foot, p.455.

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, espionage, soe, special operations executive, f section, france, resistance, buckmaster, maurice buckmaster


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