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Flames in the Field

The Story of Four SOE Agents in Occupied France

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This is the true story of four brave women secretly sent into the darkness of Nazi-occupied France to carry out Winston Churchill’s plan to "set Europe ablaze." Caught in a web of deception surrounding the preparations for the D-Day invasion, their mission ended in betrayal and sacrifice. An engrossing history based on first-hand interviews with agents of the Special Operations Executive and revelations about the secret organization and the courageous women who served it.

There was the French working-class courier who helped downed pilots and escaped POWs on their way to freedom; the fashionable Parisienne who returned thinking she could outwit the Gestapo; the upper-crust English member of the Auxiliary Transport Service who volunteered to join SOE because she loved France; and the Romanian Jewish refugee who told her mother, "If we don’t help ourselves, no one will help us" and fell in love with the leader of her resistance group.

Each of them, the men they worked with under cover of darkness, and the enigmatic woman who saw them off into the unknown, was a remarkable character, their stories told here in vivid detail for the first time.

©1995 Rita Kramer (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing Military Military & War World War II War Winston Churchill Holocaust
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This book is a fascinating listen and unveils the emotion-provoking under-stories of these four ladies who made the ultimate sacrifice without being recognised for their gift to us all.
The technicalities of delivering Kate Readings narration let the book down and when played in plain time it sounds like a mechanical version of Margaret Thatcher which isn’t a pleasant listen.
I almost gave up after chapter two but investigated ways of relieving my “pain”.
I found that when played at 1.2 times real pace it is an infinitely better experience!

Worth a try as this book, in non-Maggie mode, is well worth listening to.

Thought provoking story.

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narration is boring and monotonous. it detracts from a very good story. this i definitely a book tonread not listen to

disappointingly boring

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This is one of the best books ever written about SOE and the murder of the 4 brave women Agents at Natzweiler concentration camp.
I hope the Audible record the Best book ever written about the SOE Girls, ‘Death Be Not Proud’ by Elizabeth Nicolas. If you have a genuine interest in SOE and you want the True story and not a fictional account then read these two superb books.

Superb

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Couldn’t get past the first chapter. Is it some kind of money saving software being used? Very disappointing. Enough said.
Not sure how good the story was but rated it 4 in an attempt to be fair.

Sounds like my sat-Nav is reading the book

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