The Clandestine Radio Operators

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THE CLANDESTINE RADIO OPERATORS It is important tó honour those who paid the ultimate price for Freedom in the battle which was fought 011 the radio waves between 1940 and 1944: the clandestine radio operators. Facing a highly agressive Germán opposition, the "pianists", both men and women, had a terribly short life expectancy: less than six months For the first tirne, the training those operators followed in the United Kingdom is explained in details as well as the genuine stories of the day-to-day life of five of those heroes. This book alsó presents the clandestine radio equipment that allowed covert agents to send their messages írom deep inside occupied Francé first to London and tlien, írom 1942 on, to AJgiers. Those radio equipment, somé of them very rare, are presented as never before in full detailled colour pictures. About the author: The sori ofa Résistancefighter, a closefriend of several veterán| of thisperiod, Jean-Louis Perquin has previously authored several... Tovább

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THE CLANDESTINE RADIO OPERATORS It is important tó honour those who paid the ultimate price for Freedom in the battle which was fought 011 the radio waves between 1940 and 1944: the clandestine radio operators. Facing a highly agressive Germán opposition, the "pianists", both men and women, had a terribly short life expectancy: less than six months For the first tirne, the training those operators followed in the United Kingdom is explained in details as well as the genuine stories of the day-to-day life of five of those heroes. This book alsó presents the clandestine radio equipment that allowed covert agents to send their messages írom deep inside occupied Francé first to London and tlien, írom 1942 on, to AJgiers. Those radio equipment, somé of them very rare, are presented as never before in full detailled colour pictures. About the author: The sori ofa Résistancefighter, a closefriend of several veterán| of thisperiod, Jean-Louis Perquin has previously authored several articles onthe uniforms of Miied special agents parachuted into occupied territories during the Second World War. Having estahlished a network of numerous historians and rnuseum curalors in the United States, the United Kingdomy Norway and Francé, it is with passión but alsó a lot of huniili ty that he set off to write this first title of the Résistance book collection. Vissza