The Women Who Lived For Danger.

[Rover]

About the women agents of the SOE in WW2.
Written by Marcus Binney.
ISBN: 0-340-81840-9

Average age early twenties, dropped into Europe as couriers or wireless operators some running Resistance circuits.
If caught, as some where, they faced harsh and sometimes brutal interrogation by the Gastapo and then the concentration camp!

For those who consider females the weaker sex then I suggest that this is the book for you.

For everyone else an eye opener into the courage of the female agents of the SOE.

Rover

[Tab]

As the war came towards it's end Hitler ordered all the women agents should be put death, the method chosen by the SS was to strap them to a board and put them into an oven at a Crematorium in one of the death camps.

[Sticky Blue]

Looks like the library will be getting a call from me.
Thanks Rover... anything yuo say is good is OK in my book

[harry hackedoff]

"Carve her name with Pride"

Violet Svabo.

We Will Remember Them.

Lest We Forget.


Aye.

[Rover]

Violette Szabo

Christa Granville aka Krystyna Skarbek

Virginia Hall

Noor Inayat Khan

Lise de Baissac

Paddy O'Sullivan

Paola Del Din

Peggy Knight

Lela Karayanni

Hannah Senesh

Alix D'Unienville

Just to name a few, Polish, French, Irish, Indian, Italian, English, American, Greek.

Carve all their names with pride.

Rover

[Wholley]

Although she was never a Special Operations Exe.Member
I think Anne Frank should be mentioned here.
May Her God rest Her Soul.

As Said Previously.

Lest We Forget.

[Mike]

I Think at one time or other most of us have visited Ann Frank's house in Amsterdam, and/or read her accounts of life under the occupation of the Nazi's. To those here, possibly the younger members, I would seriously suggest you read her book.....Chilling

These people no matter what age died so that we may have he standard of life and freedom that we enjoy today, Having said that Mr Bliar is slowly reversing all that if we don't look out we will be no better than Europe was in 1940

[JJ_Adams]

"the method chosen by the SS was to strap them to a board and put them into an oven at a Crematorium in one of the death camps."

There's a memorial plaque next to the crematorium at Dachau, north of Munich, to three members of the WAAF who suffered that same fate. I have visited that site many times, and as ex WRAF - third generation RAF - it still sends chills down my spine.

[MikeTheMachine]

It really is a shame that the role women played in the war is played down so much. In movies and television the only women you tend to see are those in the Operations Room moving around the models on the large map with sticks. I recently read a book called "One Woman's War" by Eileen Younghusband after seeing her on BBC Breakfast the other week telling her story of her time with the WAAF.
It really was a fantastic read and helped me realise how important the work of the girls in the Filter Room, as well as other places was during the Battle Of Britain, as I hate to admit it but I was rather ignorant beforehand, no doubt due to Hollywood's influence!!