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Of their own Choice [with] Duel of Wits [with] The Spirit in the Cage

( SOE ) ( SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE ) CHURCHILL, Peter

THE SOE TRILOGY IN FULL MOROCCO; FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1952-3-4]

Stock code: 21886

Price: £1,120.00

FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Captain Peter Churchill's famous trilogy recounts his training, his first mission to France, his three later missions, his friendship and service with Odette, their capture, his solitary confinement in Fresnes, and deportation to Sachsenhausen and Flossenburg before his final liberation as a 'prominenten' in Italy in 1945. ARGUABLY THE FINEST CONTINUOUS MEMOIR OF SERVICE WITH SOE IN WWII. Enser, pp.396, 396, 351 (respectively); Foot, p.456.