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Young, brave and beautiful : the missions of Special Operations Executive agent Lieutenant Violette Szabó, George Cross, Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de Bronze / Tania Szabó.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2015.Description: 400 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780750962094 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.548641092 23
LOC classification:
  • D810
Summary: SOE agent Violette Szabó was the daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer killed in action in North Africa in 1942. On her second mission she was captured by the Germans, interrogated and tortured, and deported to Germany where she was eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The bare bones of her story say nothing of the sabotage, gun battles and betrayal.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 920 SZO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available r15008m0499

Includes bibliographical references and index.

SOE agent Violette Szabó was the daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer killed in action in North Africa in 1942. On her second mission she was captured by the Germans, interrogated and tortured, and deported to Germany where she was eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The bare bones of her story say nothing of the sabotage, gun battles and betrayal.

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