Secret heroes of World War II : tales of courage from the worlds of espionage and resistance Cover Image

Secret heroes of World War II : tales of courage from the worlds of espionage and resistance / Eric Chaline.

Tales of courage from the worlds of espionage and resistance (portion title)

Summary:

Many of the heroes of World War II are well-known, larger-than-life figures. This book is a tribute to the lesser-known but equally amazing individuals -- some working secretly behind the scenes on the home front and others behind enemy lines -- who made just as significant a contribution to the wartime story. It sheds new and timely light on more than 50 of the often unsung heroes and heroines of the world's most destructive war.

Record details

ISBN: 143516251X
ISBN: 9781435162518
Physical Description: 224 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits (some color) ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : Metro Books, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Backroom heroes. Enrico Fermi -- Howard Florey -- Reginald Jones -- Reginald Mitchell -- Robert Oppenheimer -- Alan Turing -- Robert Watson-Watt -- Barnes Wallis -- Espionage heroes. Eddie Chapman -- Eric Erickson -- Christine Granville -- Virginia Hall -- Knut Haukelid -- Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan -- Fitzroy Maclean -- Ewen Montagu -- Eileen Nearne -- Dusan Popov -- Juan Pujol Garcia -- Odette Sansom -- Leonard Siffleet -- Richard Sorge -- Violette Szabo -- Leopold Trepper -- Nancy Wake -- Forest Yeo-Thomas -- Resistance heroes. Mordechai Anielewicz -- Ludwig Beck -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Andrée Borrel -- Pierre Brossolette -- Wilhelm Canaris -- André Dewavrin -- Clemens von Galen -- Jean Moulin -- Martin Niemöller -- Hotsume Ozaki -- Gilbert Renault -- Sophie Scholl -- Ariadna Scriabina -- Claus von Stauffenberg -- Adam von Trott zu Solz -- Escape heroes. Douglas Bader -- Charles Coward -- Francis Foley -- Varian Fry -- Miep Gies -- Albert Göring -- Pierre Mairesse-Lebrun -- Hugh O'Flaherty -- Alexander Pechersky -- Oskar Schindler -- Irena Sendler -- Chiune Sugihara -- Raoul Wallenberg.