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A01=Sue Elliott
Author_Sue Elliott
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-HB
Category=NL-JP
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
HMM=198
IMPN=The History Press Ltd
ISBN13=9780750961257
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20150909
POP=Stroud
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=The History Press Ltd
Subject=History
Subject=Politics & Government
WMM=129

I Heard My Country Calling: Elaine Madden, the Unsung Heroine of SOE

Hardback | English

By (author): Sue Elliott

After a tragic childhood among the Great War cemeteries of Flanders Fields, a troubled young woman searches for love and meaning in war-ravaged Europe. Elaine Madden''s quest takes her from occupied Belgium through the chaos of Dunkirk, where she flees disguised as a British soldier, into the London Blitz, where she finally begins to discover herself. Recruited to T Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) as a ''fast courier'', she is parachuted back to the country of her birth to undertake a top-secret political mission and help speed its liberation from Nazi oppression. Elaine Madden never claimed to be a heroine, but her story proves otherwise. Its centrepiece - war service as one of only two women SOE agents parachuted into enemy-occupied Belgium - is just one episode in an extraordinary real-life drama of highs and lows, love, loss and betrayal. Relayed to the author in the final years of her life, Elaine''s true story of courage and humour in testing times is more intriguing, more compelling than fiction. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Sep 2015
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: Stroud, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780750961257
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