A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE
A Historical, War, World War II book. I love the subject and wish like heck we could do half stars here. The...
During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France - at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps - some were tortured, some were shot, and some died in the gas chambers. Vera Atkins had helped prepare these women for their missions, and when the war was over she went out to Germany to find out what happened to them and...
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- Pages: 463 pages
- ISBN: 9780316724975 / 316724971
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I should have read a book that dealt more specifically with the SOE and the British female agents rather than a book on Vera Atkins. Maybe I should give the three stars to me and not to the author. I love the subject and wish like heck we could do half stars here. The first half of the book was very well done, but in an effort to tell Vera's entire story the author must dig back into the hidden past and ends up with suppositions and guesswork. I guess that bothered me. The other issue is that by the end of the book, as we work... I had slightly mixed feelings about this one. It was at times extremely captivating. I just had to find out the fate of these agents but the problem I had was that I could have totally done without having to read about Vera Atkins because I found her to be not at all likeable in any way. In hindsight I would have been much more interested...
