Moon Squadron
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of Nazi-occupied Europe, a clandestine war was being fought not with tanks and artillery, but with courage, moonlight, and parachutes — Moon Squadron chronicles the extraordinary true story of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the secret British organisation tasked by Winston Churchill himself to set Europe ablaze. Jerrard Tickell presents a gripping, meticulously researched account of the brave agents — men and women alike — who were dropped behind enemy lines to organise resistance networks, sabotage German operations, and keep the flame of liberty burning in the darkest corners of occupied France and beyond. Tickell, already celebrated for his acclaimed account of SOE agent Odette Sansom, brings the same vivid, novelistic precision to this broader canvas of wartime daring, capturing both the procedural ingenuity of covert operations and the intensely human cost of lives lived on a knife's edge. The book sits at the compelling intersection of history and drama, blending documentary rigour with propulsive storytelling that reads as urgently today as it did upon publication. For anyone captivated by the secret wars of the twentieth century, Moon Squadron poses a haunting question: how many untold acts of heroism still lie buried in the darkness of history?
Author: Jerrard Tickell
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of Nazi-occupied Europe, a clandestine war was being fought not with tanks and artillery, but with courage, moonlight, and parachutes — Moon Squadron chronicles the extraordinary true story of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the secret British organisation tasked by Winston Churchill himself to set Europe ablaze. Jerrard Tickell presents a gripping, meticulously researched account of the brave agents — men and women alike — who were dropped behind enemy lines to organise resistance networks, sabotage German operations, and keep the flame of liberty burning in the darkest corners of occupied France and beyond. Tickell, already celebrated for his acclaimed account of SOE agent Odette Sansom, brings the same vivid, novelistic precision to this broader canvas of wartime daring, capturing both the procedural ingenuity of covert operations and the intensely human cost of lives lived on a knife's edge. The book sits at the compelling intersection of history and drama, blending documentary rigour with propulsive storytelling that reads as urgently today as it did upon publication. For anyone captivated by the secret wars of the twentieth century, Moon Squadron poses a haunting question: how many untold acts of heroism still lie buried in the darkness of history?