Robert Maloubier
SOE Hero: Bob Maloubier and the French Resistance
SOE Hero: Bob Maloubier and the French Resistance
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Bob Maloubier, a French James Bond and Churchill's Secret Agent, led a life of espionage and adventure during World War II. He escaped occupied France, underwent intensive training with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and carried out industrial sabotage in Le Havre and Rouen. He was also involved in guerilla warfare in France and the Far East. After the war, he helped found the French Secret Service and played a crucial role in its success. His personal account of his wartime experiences is poignant, truthful, and told in English for the first time.
Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 26 April 2019
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Robert "Bob" Maloubier, also known as the French James Bond and Churchill's Secret Agent, lived a life that could have been plucked from a spy thriller novel. At the tender age of 19, he managed to escape occupied France and find his way to England, where he underwent intensive training with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). While in occupied France, Maloubier's SOE duties included committing large-scale industrial sabotage in Le Havre and Rouen, sustaining gunshot wounds while evading capture, and being rescued by the 161 Special Duties Squadron in the nick of time. Right after D-Day, he was sent back to France alongside fellow agents Philippe Liewer, Violette Szabó, and Jean Claude Guiet, where he engaged in guerilla warfare and destroyed vital bridges. After another mission with Force 136 in the Far East, Maloubier's wealth of experience during the war made him an ideal candidate to help establish the French Secret Service, where he proved invaluable. Bob Maloubier was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable, courageous, and flamboyant figures of the Second World War. His straightforward and captivating account of his wartime experiences as an SOE agent and member of the French Resistance is both poignant and brutally honest, and it is presented here for the first time in English.
Weight: 522g
Dimension: 164 x 241 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780750966078
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