What happened to him during nearly three years behind enemy lines is the amazing story that John Keats tells in They Fought Alone.
Abandoning his circumspect approach, Pierre ran down the métro steps to see whether Gaston had perhaps misunderstood his instructions. The white tiled corridors leading down to the trains were deserted. Now, at ten past eleven, ...
But They Fought Alone is essentially the story of one man—a testament to the ingenuity and sheer guts of an authentic American hero. “This remarkable story of guerrilla fighting in the Philippines during WWII...it is absorbing reading.
“Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone is a must-read for those whose passion is the Resistance literature of World War II.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France From the bestselling author of ...
They Fought Alone, first published in 1958, is the story of the British SOE (Special Operations Executive) in France, written by Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster (1902-1992), the head of the SOE French Section.
'They Fought Alone' is a unique look at how the Special Operations Executive operated from the inside of its London headquarters, from where Buckmaster coordinated acts of sabotage, resistance and terror against the occupying Nazis.
"After the defeat of the French Army and Britain's retreat from the Continent in June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the [Special Operations Executive (SOE)] to 'set Europe ablaze.