The White Rabbit
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
The White Rabbit is a gripping true account of one of the most extraordinary secret agents of the Second World War — Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas, code-named The White Rabbit — whose audacious missions behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France stand as a testament to almost superhuman courage and resilience. Bruce Marshall chronicles Yeo-Thomas's harrowing exploits as a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent: his repeated parachute drops into France, his tireless organisation of the French Resistance, his eventual capture by the Gestapo, and his brutal interrogation and imprisonment in some of the Reich's most notorious concentration camps, including Buchenwald. Marshall, himself a veteran and accomplished author, reconstructs this remarkable story with the pace and tension of a thriller while never losing sight of its shattering human truth, drawing on Yeo-Thomas's own testimony to produce a narrative that is both meticulously detailed and profoundly moving. The result is a portrait of defiance — of a man who escaped death multiple times through sheer ingenuity and an iron will — that raises enduring questions about the nature of bravery, loyalty, and what ordinary men are capable of in the most extraordinary of circumstances. For anyone drawn to the shadowy world of wartime espionage and the indomitable spirit it demanded, this is essential reading.
Author: Bruce Marshall
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
The White Rabbit is a gripping true account of one of the most extraordinary secret agents of the Second World War — Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas, code-named The White Rabbit — whose audacious missions behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France stand as a testament to almost superhuman courage and resilience. Bruce Marshall chronicles Yeo-Thomas's harrowing exploits as a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent: his repeated parachute drops into France, his tireless organisation of the French Resistance, his eventual capture by the Gestapo, and his brutal interrogation and imprisonment in some of the Reich's most notorious concentration camps, including Buchenwald. Marshall, himself a veteran and accomplished author, reconstructs this remarkable story with the pace and tension of a thriller while never losing sight of its shattering human truth, drawing on Yeo-Thomas's own testimony to produce a narrative that is both meticulously detailed and profoundly moving. The result is a portrait of defiance — of a man who escaped death multiple times through sheer ingenuity and an iron will — that raises enduring questions about the nature of bravery, loyalty, and what ordinary men are capable of in the most extraordinary of circumstances. For anyone drawn to the shadowy world of wartime espionage and the indomitable spirit it demanded, this is essential reading.