{"product_id":"9780008103620_soe-manual-how-to-be-an-agent-in-occupied-europe","title":"SOE Manual: How to be an Agent in Occupied Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover – from documents, cover stories and how to live off the land to how to get through an interrogation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British World War II organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late 1942, SOE was asked to increase the number of agents to aid the invasion of mainland Europe. Part of agent training was ‘tradecraft’ – the practical details on how to be a clandestine agent behind enemy lines – which every agent had to attend at various bases centred around Beaulie in Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe course was a set of lectures and this book contains the actual text of those lectures which were discovered in the National Archives this year. It is not only a fascinating insight into the workings of one of the Second World Wars most famous and secretive organisations, but is also a reminder of the huge danger anyone being dropped behind enemy lines had to face.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Special Operations Executive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285257633941,"sku":"9780008103620","price":4.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008103620.jpg?v=1776992263","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008103620_soe-manual-how-to-be-an-agent-in-occupied-europe","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}