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From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britains Special Operations Executive, one of World War IIs most important secret fighting forces
As far as the public knew, Britains Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army and Britains retreat from the Continent in June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the top-secret espionage operation to set Europe ablaze. The agents infiltrated Nazi-occupied territory, parachuting behind enemy lines and hiding in plain sight, quietly but forcefully recruiting, training, and arming local French rsistants to attack the German war machine. SOE would not only change the course of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Of the many brave men and women conscripted, two Anglo-American recruits, the Starr brothers, stood out to become legendary figures to the guerillas, assassins, and saboteurs they led.
While both brothers were sent across the channel to organize against the Germans, their fates in war could hardly have been more different. Captain George Starr commanded networks of rsistants in southwest France, cutting German communications, destroying weapons factories, and delaying the arrival of Nazi troops to Normandy by seventeen days after D-Day. Younger brother Lieutenant John Starr laid groundwork for resistance in the Burgundy countryside until he was betrayed, captured, tortured, and imprisoned by the Nazis in France and sent to a series of concentration camps in Germany and Austria. Feats of boldness and bravado were many, but appalling scandals, including Georges supposed torture and execution of Nazis prisoners, and Johns alleged collaboration with his German captors, overshadowed them all. At the wars end, Britain, France, and the United States awarded both brothers medals for heroism, and George would become one of only three among thousands of SOE operatives to achieve the rank of colonel. Yet, their battle honors did little to allay postwar allegations against them, and when they returned to England, their government accused both brothers of heinous war crimes.
Here, for the first time, is the story of one of the great clandestine organizations of World War II, and of two heroic brothers whose ordeals during and after the war challenged the accepted myths of Britains wartime resistance in occupied France. Written with complete and unrivaled access to only recently declassified documents from Britains SOE files, French archives, family letters, diaries, and court records, along with interviews from surviving wartime Resistance fighters, They Fought Alone is a real-life thriller. Renowned journalist and war correspondent Charles Glass exposes a dramatic tale of spies, sabotage, and the daring men and women who risked everything to change the course of World War II.
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Charles Glass....uses his considerable research and storytelling skills to uncover the little-known story of SOE (Special Operations Executive) agents George and John Starr....While They Fought Alone may read like a thriller, the enormous toll that the war took on George and John Starr is palpable. As we approach the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, this book is a timely reminder of what it took to defeat tyranny. Bookpage
Glasss vividly written work adds an important chapter to the story of the Resistance. Publishers Weekly
A fresh, detailed take on the patriotic legend of anti-Nazi insurgency.A well-rendered historical account emphasizing the moral complexities of unorthodox warfare. Kirkus
Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glasss 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
A fascinating, gripping account of two controversial secret agents, brothers who maneuvered with great cunning and managed to survive behind the lines in Nazi occupied France. Alex Kershaw, author of Avenue of Spies and The Liberator
About the Author
Charles Glass was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News from 1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. His writings appear in Harpers Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Independent, and The Spectator. He is the author of Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, Money for Old Rope, The Northern Front, Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, and The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II.
Publisher: Penguin Press (September 11, 2018)
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Names: Glass, Charles, 1951 author.
Title: They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France / Charles Glass.
Description: New York: Penguin Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018006208 (print) | LCCN 2018028496 (ebook) | ISBN 9781594206177 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780698168978 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Starr, George Reginald, 19041980. | Starr, John Ashford Renshaw, 19081966. | Great Britain. Special Operations ExecutiveBiography. | World War, 19391945Secret serviceGreat Britain. | SpiesGreat BritainBiography. | World War, 19391945Underground movementsFrance.
Classification: LCC D810.S8 (ebook) | LCC D810.S8 S744 2018 (print) | DDC 940.54/86410922dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006208
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To the grandchildren:
Leonora, Allegra, Eva, Zelda, Rose, Christian, Arthur, Iris, Felix, Harriet, Theo, Isaac, and Orlando
with love.
Lieutenant Claude Arnault: Code name Nron; demolition specialist sent by Special Operations Executive (SOE) to assist George Starr.
Serge Asher: Cover name Serge Ravanel; Resistance leader and regional commander of the Forces Franaises de lIntrieur (FFI).
Vera Atkins: French Section (F-Section) intelligence officer under Maurice Buckmaster in London.
Georges Bgu: Radio operator and first agent that SOE infiltrated into France in May 1941.
Denise Bloch: Code names Danielle and Catherine; French Jewish rsistante, courier of the DETECTIVE circuit and then of George Starrs WHEELWRIGHT in Castelnau-sur-lAuvignon.
Marcus Bloom: Code names Urbain and Bishop; SOE F-Section radio operator, arrived in southern France in November 1942 with George Starr, transmitted for Maurice Pertschuk of PRUNUS and for George Starr.
Jan Buchowski: Polish naval lieutenant and skipper of the Seadog, delivered George Starr to the French coast and took John Starr out.
Colonel Maurice Buckmaster: Chief of SOEs F-Section.
Buresie: Former member of the Foreign Legion, George Starrs bodyguard.
Peter Churchill: Code name Raoul; early SOE organizer in France.
Winston Churchill: British wartime prime minister, established SOE on July 16, 1940.
Yvonne Cormeau: Code name Annette; radio operator for George Starrs WHEELWRIGHT circuit.
Hugh Dalton: Minister of economic warfare, to whom SOE reported.
Gnral Charles de Gaulle: Head of the Free French in London from 1940 to 1944.
Lieutenant Charles Duchalard: Code name Denis; French Canadian sabotage expert sent by SOE to assist Maurice Pertschuk and George Starr.
Pierre Duffoir: Code name Flix; courier for George Starr.
Maurice Maxime Lon Dupont: Code name Yvan; French soldier and WHEELWRIGHT circuit courier.
Colonel Lon Faye: Founder of the ALLIANCE network, captured by the Germans and held at avenue Foch.
Major Horace Hod Williams Fuller: Code name Kansul; American marine officer and commander of Jedburgh Team Bugatti, which parachuted into southwest France in June 1944 to work with George Starr.
Sergeant Fernand Gaucher: Code name Grard; member of Frances 150th Infantry Regiment, which formed the core of the Rseau Victoire.
Andr Girard: French chief of CARTE circuit until 1943, when he was recalled to London.
Gnral Henri Giraud: French Army officer, captured in 1940 and escaped to lead Resistance networks, preferred by the Americans over Charles de Gaulle as leader of the Free French forces.
Dr. Josef Goetz: Second in command of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) radio department in avenue Foch, initiated and ran the SDs Funkspiel radio game in France with radio sets captured from SOE agents.
Philippe de Gunzbourg: Code names Philibert and Edgar; French Jewish aristocrat and landowner, operative of the homegrown Combat Resistance network before working for George Starr.
Captain George Donovan Jones: Radio operator for ACROBAT circuit in eastern France, captured by the Germans and imprisoned with Captain Brian Dominic Rafferty.
Corporal Alfred von Kapri: SD official at 84 avenue Foch.
Noor Inayat Khan: Code name Madeleine; SOE radio operator in Paris, captured by the Germans and held at avenue Foch.
Sturmbannfhrer SS Major Hans Josef Kieffer: German SD counterespionage chief in Paris, employed the imprisoned John Starr to draw maps for the Germans at avenue Foch.
Colonel Helmut Knochen: Paris commander of the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsfhrers-SS (Security Service of the Reichsfhrer-SS) and the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO; security police).
Pierre Labayle: Montrjeau brewer and SOE rsistant with PRUNUS circuit.
Roger Larribeau: Mayor of Castelnau, Castelnau-sur-lAuvignon, early rsistant and confidant of George Starr.
Louis and Tho Lvy: German Jewish exile brothers, early members of the Resistance, worked undercover for George Starr. Tho ran George Starrs intelligence branch, and both brothers conducted operations disguised as German soldiers. Tho later adopted his brothers code name, Christophe.
Captain F. Lofts: Staff officer of SOE Group B Special Training School (STS) in Beaulieu, Hampshire.
Leo Marks: SOE signals chief and author of Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemakers Story, 19411945.
Pierre Martin:Rsistant who betrayed John Starr to the SS and Gestapo.
Alfred and Henry Newton: Prewar circus performers, John Starrs classmates at SOE training school, and agents in occupied France.
Major Gilbert Norman: Code name Archambaud; PHYSICIAN circuit radio operator, imprisoned with John Starr.
Toms Guerrero Ortega: Code name Camilo; exiled Spanish Republican army officer, chief of Groupe Espanol de Rsistance dans le Gers, the 35th Spanish Brigade of Guerrillas, who were armed by George Starr.
Second Lieutenant Erich Otto: SD radio department chief in Paris.
Captain Claude Joseph Maurice Parisot: Code name Caillou (Stone); organizer of rsistants under the Organisation de Rsistance de lArme (ORA), cofounder of the Armagnac Battalion, George Starrs closest friend in the Resistance.
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