Churchill's White Rabbit
The True Story of a Real-Life James Bond
Published on 30. November 2011
288 pages
978-0-7524-7893-7 (ISBN)
Description
Forest Yeo-Thomas GC was one of the bravest of the brave. A fluent French-speaker, he joined SOE and was parachuted into occupied France three times to work with the Resistance. Appalled by the lack of help the British were providing, he managed to arrange a five-minute meeting with Winston Churchill, during which he persuaded him to do more. On his third mission he was betrayed and captured by the Gestapo; he suffered horrendous torture before being sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, from where he eventually managed to escape, making it back to Allied lines shortly before the end of the war. Sophie Jackson's biography reveals new information about how the torture affected Yeo-Thomas, the state of SOE-Resistance co-operation, Gestapo typhus experiments at Buchenwald and how 'White Rabbit', Yeo-Thomas, provided the inspiration for Ian Fleming's famous secret agent, James Bond.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
4,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-7893-7 (9780752478937)
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09/2012
The History Press Ltd
€41.03
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Person
SOPHIE JACKSON has worked as a freelance writer specialising in historical subjects. She is widely published in magazines across the UK and US, including the Daily Mirror, Antiques Info Magazine, Your Family Tree, Your Family History and Family History Monthly. She is the author of Churchill's Unexpected Guests, Churchill's White Rabbit and SOE's Balls of Steel, among many others.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- - Author's Note -
- - 1 - Beware the Agent who isn't Punctual
- - 2 - The Secrets of a Tailor
- - 3 - A Heart for Conflict
- - 4 - The Ruination of France
- - 5 - An Ungentlemanly Type of War
- - 6 - The Man with the White Streak in his Hair
- - 7 - Good Agents Always Arrive Punctually
- - 8 - The American
- - 9 - Dinner with Sophie
- - 10 - A Good Agent has no Routine
- - 11 - Farewell, Dear Brossolette
- - 12 - The White Rabbit and the German Wolf
- - 13 - The Endless Nightmare
- - 14 - The Traitor at Fresnes
- - 15 - The Darkness of Buchenwald
- - 16 - A Final Adventure
- - 17 - And then the War was Won
- Select Bibliography
- Plates
- Copyright
