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100 1 $aThomas, Gordon,$d1933-2017,$eauthor.
245 10 $aShadow warriors of World War II :$bthe daring women of the OSS and SOE /$cGordon Thomas, Greg Lewis.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aChicago, Illinois :$bChicago Review Press,$c[2017]
300 $axviii, 292 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.
505 0 $aMOSP by all means possible -- The clouds of war -- The magician's airfield -- Slipping into the shadows -- Enigma in the suitcase -- Agents by moonlight -- Donovan's decision -- The Russians arrive -- Betrayed -- They serve alone -- Out of the shadows -- Afterward.
520 $aWorld War II was the first time in history that women were trained as combatants and secret agents to be parachuted behind enemy lines. This was the war in which old gender rules changed, as intelligence agencies created specific training and roles for women. It was the war in which spy chiefs realized women's potential as couriers, wireless operators, spies, saboteurs, and even Resistance leaders. British prime minister Winston Churchill had rung the changes when he gave the order in July 1940 to "set Europe ablaze." The unit charged to do this was the Special Operations Executive, or SOE, a different kind of intelligence agency. Churchill called them "members of my underground army who collaborate and fight in the shadows." They were spies and saboteurs trained as cryptographers, cartographers, analysts, and experts in recruiting, communication, and leadership to guide the resistance and partisans in the tense days of action in every theater of the European War. In the United States, six months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the formation of the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS. The president's pen paved the way for American women to operate behind enemy lines along with the SOE. These agents ranged from girls barely out of high school to mature mothers, from working-class women to the daughters of aristocrats, from the plain to the beautiful, from the prim and proper to wild high-livers. Each of them was trained to blend in with the local population and even to disguise herself if necessary, by walking with a limp or wearing glasses. Burglars taught them how to pick locks and blow safes. Specialists showed them how to use rubber truncheons, tommy guns, Smith and Wesson automatics with silencers, and the killing knife with its polished and blackened blade. They were taught to throw grenades, jump from a fast-moving train, and plant a bomb on the hull of a ship. Those trained as wireless operators learned how to send secret messages and arrange for weapons to be dropped for the resistance fighters they would work with. All knew that torture and death were the price of failure. They were brave and resourceful women, ready to place themselves in harm's way in order to serve their country. They worked undercover and carried out their assigned missions, sometimes with high-tech gadgets but none that could replace their own intelligence and determination. Their average age was twenty-five. Their femininity could be a resource in itself; making the Germans less likely to search or arrest them if they were acting as message couriers or wireless operators. It also meant they were often in a position of making great self-sacrifice. For many, going on active service meant leaving babies and children at home. Many paid the ultimate price for their bravery. All have individual stories that deserve a special place in the history of British and American intelligence during the Second World War.--Adapted from introduction.
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