Editing Special Operations Executive (section)

==References==
'''Official publications / academic histories'''
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* {{Cite book|title=Commando Country|last=Allan|first=Stuart|publisher=[[National Museums of Scotland]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-905267-14-9 }} <!-- Covers Commando and SOE training in the Highlands of Scotland; describes the origins of the irregular warfare training at Inverailort House under MI(R) then the move of SOE training to the nearby Arisaig and Morar area. -->
* {{Cite book|title=Target Italy: The Secret War against Mussolini, 1940–1943|last=Bailey|first=Roderick|publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2014|isbn=978-0571299188 }} <!--D etailed account of operations from beginning of hostilities to fall of Mussolini. Sister volume to David Stafford's'' Mission Accomplished -->
* {{Cite book|title=La Gran Bretagna e l'Antifascismo italiano. Diplomazia clandestina, Intelligence, Operazioni Speciali (1940–1943)|last=Berrettini|first=Mireno|publisher=Le Lettere|year=2010|isbn=978-8860873729|location=Italy |language=it}}
* {{Cite book|title=SOE: The Scientific Secrets|last1=Boyce|first1=Frederic|last2=Everett|first2=Douglas|publisher=Sutton |year=2003|isbn=0-7509-4005-0}}
* {{Cite book|title=SOE Agent: Churchill's secret warriors|last1=Crowdy|first1=Terry|publisher=Osprey |year=2008|isbn=978-1846032769|location=Oxford |series=Warrior 133}}
* {{Cite book|title=SOE in the Far East|last=Cruikshank|first=Charles|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1983|isbn=0-19-215873-2 }}
<!-- :Official history commissioned 1980, companion to Foot, ''SOE'', with access to papers (though researched 20 years later than Foot's book, when many participants had died, see Preface). -->
* {{Cite book|title=SOE in Scandinavia|last=Cruikshank|first=Charles|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1986|isbn=0-19-215883-X }}
* {{Cite book|title=The Special Operations Executive 1940–1946|last=Foot|first=M. R. D.|publisher=Pimlico|year=1999|isbn=0-7126-6585-4 |author-link=M. R. D. Foot}} <!-- Contains an overview of SOE and its methods; Foot won the Croix de Guerre as a SAS operative in Brittany, later becoming Professor of Modern History at [[Victoria University of Manchester|Manchester University]] and an official historian of SOE. -->
* {{Cite book|title=SOE in France|last=Foot|first=M. R. D.|publisher=Frank Cass|year=2004|isbn=0-7146-5528-7|title-link = SOE in France}} <!--(orig. 1966, Government Official Histories, published by Frank Cass, revised edition 2000, further edition 2004). Written with access to F Section files, later revised -->
* Herrington, Ian. ''Special Operations in Norway: SOE and Resistance in World War II'' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) [https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54122 online review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111115619/https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54122 |date=11 January 2024 }}
* {{cite book|title=Dutch courage: Special Forces in the Netherlands 1944–45|last=Hooiveld|first=Jelle |publisher=Amberley Publishing|year=2016|isbn=978-1-4456-5741-7|location=Stroud}}online book review]
* {{Cite book|title=Overture to Overlord – The Preparations of D-Day: North West Europe (Special Operations World War Two)|last1=MacKay|first1=Francis|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2005|isbn=978-0850528923|location=Barnsley}}
* {{Cite book|title=The Secret History of SOE: Special Operations Executive 1940–1945 |last=Mackenzie |first=William|publisher=BPR Publications|year=2000|isbn=0-9536151-8-9 }} <!--
: Written at the end of WW2 for the British Government's use, not for publication—in effect a confidential "official history". -->
* {{Cite book|title=Airlift to Warsaw: The Rising of 1944|last=Orpen|first=Neil D.|publisher=University of Oklahoma|year=1984|isbn=978-0806119137|location=Norman, OK (US)|url=https://archive.org/details/airlifttowarsawr0000orpe}}
* {{Cite book|title=SOE Syllabus: Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare World War II|last=Rigden|first=Denis|publisher=Secret History Files, National Archives|year=2001|isbn=1-903365-18-X }} <!--
: Authentic training manuals used to prepare agents covering the clandestine skills of disguise, surveillance, burglary, interrogation, close combat, and assassination. Also published as ''How to be a Spy''. -->
* {{Cite book|title=Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943–45|last=Stafford|first=David|publisher=The Bodley Head|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84792-065-2}}
* {{Cite book|title=Secret Agent: the true story of the Special Operations Executive|last=Stafford|first=David|publisher=BBC Worldwide Ltd|year=2000|isbn=0-563-53734-5 }}
* {{Cite journal|last=Steinacher|first=Gerald|year=2002|title=Passive Grumbling, rather than Resisting: the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Austria 1940–1945|url=http://www.eforum-zeitgeschichte.at/|journal=International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence|volume=XV|pages=211–221|doi=10.1080/08850600252869038|s2cid=154464522|access-date=21 November 2006|archive-date=19 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519043708/http://www.eforum-zeitgeschichte.at/|url-status=dead}} <!-- : ''First results of a research on the newly released Austrian SOE files of the Public Record Office Kew'' -->
* {{Cite book|title=Briggens – SOE's Forgery and Polish Agent Training Station.|last=Turner|first=Des|year=2017}}
* {{Cite book|title=SOE's Secret Weapons Centre: Station 12|last=Turner|first=Des|publisher=The History Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0752459448|location=Stroud}}
* {{Cite book|title=Station 43: Audley End House and SOE's Polish Section|last=Valentine|first=Ian|publisher=Sutton Publishing|year=2006|isbn=0-7509-4255-X }}
* {{Cite book|title=Poland Alone: Britain, SOE and the Collapse of the Polish Resistance, 1944|last=Walker|first=Jonathan|publisher=The History Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86227-474-7 }}
* {{Cite book|title=Spycraft: inside the CIA's top secret Spy Lab|last1=Wallace|first1=Robert |last2=Melton |first2=H. Keith |publisher=Bantam |year=2010 |isbn=978-0553820072|location=London}}
* {{Cite book|title=Special Operations: AAF Aid To European Resistance Movements, 1943–1945 (U.S. Air Force Historical Study No. 121)|last=Warren|first=Harris G. |publisher=US Army Air Force|year=1947}}
* {{cite book|title=Gubbins and SOE|last1=Wilkinson|first1=Peter |last2=Astley |first2=Joan Bright|publisher=Pen & Sword Military|year=2010 |isbn=978-1-84884-421-6|location=Barnsle y|author-link1=Peter Wilkinson (diplomat) |author-link2=Joan Bright Astley}} <!--  ''Partial biography of Colin Gubbins, and the politics at the head of SOE and its relations to the Cabinet'' -->
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'''First-hand accounts by those who served with SOE'''
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* {{cite book| title=Forgotten Voices of the Secret War| last=Bailey| first=Roderick| publisher=Ebury Press| year=2008| isbn=978-0-09-191851-4}} <!-- anthology of quotes and short accounts by members of SOE and associated organisations -->
* {{cite book|title=They Also Serve: an SOE Agent in the WRNS|last=Baden-Powell|first=Dorothy|publisher=Robert Hale |year=2004|isbn=978-0-7090-7715-2 }}
* {{cite book|title=The Jungle is Neutral|last=Chapman|first=Freddie Spencer|publisher=Chatto and Windus|year=1949|author-link=Freddie Spencer Chapman |ref=none}} <!--Chapman set up first jungle warfare school and operated in Malaya behind Japanese lines. Key figure in SOE in Far East. -->
* {{cite book| title= Of Their Own Choice | last=Churchill | first=Peter | publisher=Hodder and Stoughton | year=1952|author-link=Peter Churchill |ref=none}} <!-- Account of his SOE training and his first mission to inspect and support three SOE networks in Antibes, Marseille and Lyons.'' -->
* {{cite book |title=Duel of Wits |last=Churchill | first=Peter | publisher=Hodder and Stoughton | year=1953|author-link=Peter Churchill }} <!--Account of his second mission to deliver four SOE agents in occupied France, and his third mission to organise the SPINDLE network. -->
* {{cite book |title=The Spirit in the Cage |last=Churchill |first=Peter |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |year=1954 |author-link=Peter Churchill |ref=none}} <!-- Account of his captivity in France then in Germany and eventual release. -->
* {{cite book |title=Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent |last=Cornioley |first=Pearl Witherington |publisher=Chicago Review Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1613731581 |location=Chicago |author-link=Pearl Witherington }} <!-- Account of a courier who helped divide the F-Section's Stationer network after Maurice Southgate's arrest one month prior to D-Day and became the organiser of the Marie-Wrestler network; introductions, notes. -->
* {{cite book|title=Special Operations Europe: Scenes from the Anti-Nazi War|last=Davidson|first=Basil|publisher=Victor Gollancz|year=1980|isbn=0-575-02820-3|author-link=Basil Davidson |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Partisan Picture|last=Davidson|first=Basil|publisher=Bedford Books|year=1946|author-link=Basil Davidson |ref=none}}
<!--  'Davidson's activities in Yugoslavia, 1943–44 -->
* [[Patrick Leigh Fermor|Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor]]. ''The 11th Day''. Archangel Films, 2006. <!-- Firsthand documentary account of the kidnapping of Major General [[Heinrich Kreipe]], the German army commander on [[Crete]]. -->
* {{cite book|title=Undercover|last=Howarth|first=Patrick|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |year=1980|isbn=0-7100-0573-3 }} <!-- Covers the stories of a number of operatives, many known personally by Howarth, who was one of SOE's founding members responsible for several years for organising agent training in UK. Contains a seven-page bibliography of histories and memoirs. -->
* {{cite book|title=The Shetland Bus|last=Howarth|first= David Armine|publisher=Thomas Nelson |year=1950|author-link=David Armine Howarth |ref=none}} <!-- Account of the Norwegian vessels which kept Britain in touch with the Norwegian resistance -->
* {{cite book|title=The Next Moon: the remarkable true story of a British agent behind the lines in wartime France|last1=Hue|first1=André|last2=Southby-Tailyour |first2=Ewen |publisher=Penguin |year=2005 |isbn=0-14-101580-2 |ref=none}} <!--First hand story of agent dropped into Brittany to organise resistance activities before and after D-Day. -->
* {{cite book|title=Eastern Approaches|last=MacLean|first=Fitzroy|publisher=Penguin|year=1991|isbn=0-14-013271-6 |author-link=Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet |ref=none}} <!-- Author witnessed SOE's campaign with Yugoslav partisans as Churchill's representative to Tito. -->
* {{cite book |title=Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945 |last=Marks |first=Leo |publisher=Harper Collins |year=1998 |isbn=0-00-255944-7 |author-link=Leo Marks |ref=none}} <!-- Marks was the Head of Codes at SOE. He gives an introduction to codes, their practical use in the field, and his struggle to improve encryption methods. Accounts of agents including [[Noor Inayat Khan]], [[Violette Szabo]], and a great deal of information on his friend [[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas]] are included. -->
* {{cite book |title=Ill Met by Moonlight |last=Moss |first=William Stanley |publisher=Harrap |year=1950 |author-link=W. Stanley Moss |ref=none}}
<!-- Firsthand account of Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor's kidnapping of Major General [[Heinrich Kreipe]], the German army commander on [[Crete]].'' Later turned into a [[Ill Met by Moonlight (film)|film of the same title]]. -->
* {{Cite book | last = Ousby | first = Ian | title = The Ordeal of France, 1940–1944 | year = 2000 | place = New York | publisher = Cooper Square Press | isbn = 978-0815410430}}
* {{cite book|title=Secret Flotillas; Vol II: Clandestine Sea Operations in the Western Mediterranean, North Africa and the Adriatic, 1940-1944|last=Richards|first=Brooks|publisher=Whitehall History Publications|year=2004|author-link=Brooks Richards}}
* {{cite book|title=The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: my life in Churchill's secret army|last=Riols|first=Noreen|publisher=Macmillan|year=2013|location=London|isbn = 978-0230770904|author-link=Noreen Riols|ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Miss-Fire|last=Rootham|first=Jasper|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1946|author-link=Jasper Rootham |ref=none}} <!-- Account of SOE's mission to Yugoslavia in support of [[Draža Mihailović]] and the [[Chetniks]]. -->
* {{cite book|title=Albanian Assignment|last=Smiley|first=David|publisher=Sphere Books Ltd|year=1984|isbn=0-7221-7933-2|author-link=David Smiley |ref=none}} <!-- Account of SOE's missions to Albania. -->
* {{cite book|title=Baker Street Irregular|last=Sweet-Escott|first=Bickham|publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd|year=1965|location=London|author-link=Bickham Sweet-Escott |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|last=Verity |first=Hugh |title=We Landed by Moonlight |location=Shepperton, Surrey |publisher=Ian Allan Limited |year=1978}}
* {{cite book|title=The White Mouse: the autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called The White Mouse|last=Wake|first=Nancy|publisher=Macmillan|year=1986|isbn=978-0-333-40099-9|author-link=Nancy Wake |ref=none}} <!--
 Account of a female SOE field agent's experiences in the F Section. -->
* {{cite book|title=Moondrop to Gascony|last=Walters|first=Anne-Marie|publisher=Moho Books|year=2009|isbn=978-0-9557208-1-9|location=Wiltshire|author-link=Anne-Marie Walters |ref=none}} <!-- Account of the author's activities as courier with F Section's "Wheelwright" network. -->
* {{cite book| last1=Wilkinson| first1=Peter| last2=Foot| first2=M. R. D| title=Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative| publisher=I.B.Tauris| year= 2002| isbn=978-1860647796 |ref=none}} <!--Account of one of SOE's headquarters staff officers of his experiences -->
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'''Biographies / popular books by outsiders'''
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* {{cite book|title=Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939–1945|last=Atkin|first=Malcolm|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2015|isbn=978-1-47383-377-7|location=Barnsley}}
* {{Cite book|title=The Bitter Sea: The Brutal World War II Fight for the Mediterranean|last=Ball|first=Simon|publisher=Harper Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0007203055|location=New York}}: ''Gives tangential account of SOE's operations in the Mediterranean and its quarrels with other intelligence agencies''
* {{cite book|title=The Women Who Lived For Danger|last=Binney|first=Marcus|publisher=Harper Collins|year=2003|isbn=0-06-054087-7|author-link=Marcus Binney |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Mission Scapula SOE in the Far East|last=Christie|first=Maurice A.|year=2004|isbn=0-9547010-0-3|location=London |ref=none}}<!-- A true story about an ordinary soldier (Arthur Christie) seconded into MI5 and sent on a mission to Singapore just before it fell. With Freddy Spencer-Chapman. Written by Arthur Christie's son Maurice A. Christie: "The wartime memories of Arthur Christie, written in the first person by his son Maurice A. Christie. Arthur Christie credited as author on cover."'' -->
* {{Citation |last=Crowdy |first=Terry |title=French Resistance Fighter France's Secret Army |year=2007 |place=London |publisher=Osprey |isbn=978-0-307-40515-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/churchillhitlert00patr_0 }}
* {{cite book|title=Sabotage and Subversion|last=Dear|first=Ian|publisher=Arms and Armour|year=1996|isbn=0-304-35202-0 |ref=none}}<!-- : ''General chapters on origins, recruitment and training, and then describes in detail thirteen operations in Europe and around the world, some involving the OSS.'' -->
* {{cite book|title=British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War|first=Dennis|last=Deletant|author-link=Dennis Deletant|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|place=London|date=2016|isbn=9781349555093}}
* {{cite book|title=A Quiet Courage: the story of SOE's women agents in France|last=Escott|first=Beryl|publisher=Patrick Stevens Ltd|year=1991|isbn=978-1-85260-289-5 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Double Mission: Fighter Pilot and SOE Agent, Manfred Czernin|last=Franks|first=Normal |publisher=William Kimber|year=1976|isbn=0-7183-0254-0|location=London (UK)|author-link=Norman Franks |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=The Starr Affair |last=Fuller |first=Jean Overton |author-link=Jean Overton Fuller |year=1973 |publisher=George Mann |location=Maidstone |isbn=978-0-7041-0004-6 |ref=none}}: Tells the story of [[John Renshaw Starr]]
* {{cite book |title=Rogue Male: Sabotage and Seduction behind German Lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC |last1=Field |first1=Roger |last2=Gordon-Creed |first2=Geoffrey |last3=Creed |first3=N. |publisher=Coronet |year=2012 |isbn=978-1444706352 |location=London}}
* {{cite book |title=Classic World War II Aircraft Cutaways |last=Gunston|first=Bill|publisher=Osprey |year=1995|location=Oxford |author-link=Bill Gunston |isbn=978-1-85532-526-5}}
* {{cite book|title=A Life in Secrets: the story of [[Vera Atkins]] and the lost agents of SOE|last=Helm|first=Sarah|publisher=Little, Brown and Co.|year=2005|isbn=0-316-72497-1|location=London |author-link=Sarah Helm |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Inside Camp X|last=Hodgson|first=Lynn-Philip|publisher=Blake Books |year=2002|isbn=978-0968706251|edition=3rd|location=Port Perry, Ont. |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Mission Improbable: salute to the Royal Air Force women of Special Operations Executive in wartime France|last=Jones|first=Liane|publisher=Bantam Press|year=1990|isbn=978-0-593-01663-3 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Watch for Me by Moonlight|last=Le Chene|first=Evelyn|publisher=Corgi|year=1974|location=London |ref=none}}<!--  ''Based on "snipets from the past" written down by Robert Burdett (formerly Robert Boiteux), edited by Evelyn Le Chene, the wife of Pierre Le Chene, Burdett's wartime radio operator.'' -->
* {{cite book|title=The White Rabbit|last=Marshall|first=Bruce|publisher=Cassell Military Paperbacks|year=2000|isbn=0-304-35697-2 |ref=none}}  <!-- ''Famous biography of Wing Commander Yeo-Thomas who made secret trips to France to meet senior Resistance figures. Story of capture, torture and escape, written as told by "Tommy" to Marshall (who was himself on the HQ staff of RF section).'' -->
* {{cite book|title=Mission 101|last=McNab|first=Duncan|publisher=Pan Macmillan (Australia)|year=2011 |ref=none}} Reissued by The History Press, 2012.
* {{cite book|title=The Real Heroes of Telemark: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Stop Hitler's Atomic Bomb|last=Mears|first=Ray|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|year=2003|isbn=0-340-83015-8|author-link=Ray Mears (author) |ref=none}}
: ''In association with a three part BBC TV series, Ray Mears followed the route taken in 1943 along with some present day members of the Royal Marines and the Norwegian Army.''
* {{cite book|title=The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare|last=Milton|first=Giles|publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]]|year=2016|isbn=978-1-444-79895-1|author-link=Giles Milton}}
* {{cite book|title=Carve Her Name with Pride |last=Minney |first=R. J. |publisher=Newnes |year=1956 |location=London |author-link=R.J. Minney |ref=none}}
: ''Tells the story of [[Violette Szabo]] (a film of the same name was based on the book).''
* {{cite book|title=The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of World War Two|last=Mulley|first=Clare|publisher=Pan Macmillan|year=2011|isbn=978-0-230-75951-0|location=London|author-link=Clare Mulley}}
* {{cite book|title=Agent Zo, The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka|last=Mulley|first=Clare|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2024|isbn=978-1-3996-0106-1|location=London|author-link=Clare Mulley}}
* {{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Mike|title=S.O.E. CD1 – The Life and Times of Sir Frank Nelson|publisher=Palmridge|edition=1st |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Spirit of Resistance: The Life of SOE Agent Harry Peulevé DSO MC|last=Perrin|first=Nigel|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2008|isbn=978-1-84415-855-3 |ref=none}} <!-- ''Biography of the F Section agent [[Harry Peulevé]], who undertook two missions in France and was one of the few to escape [[Buchenwald concentration camp]]. -->
* {{cite book|title=The Grand Prix Saboteurs|last=Saward|first=Joe|publisher=Morienval Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-9554868-0-7|author-link=Joe Saward |ref=none}}
* {{cite web |last=Orchard |first=Adrian |title=Group Captain Percy Charles 'Pick' Pickard DSO**, DFC 1915–1944 |date=February 2006 |publisher=The Society of old Framlinghamians |website=www oldframlinghamian com |url=https://www.oldframlinghamian.com/images/articles/GROUPCAPTAINPERCYPICKARDDSODFCG26-32. |format=pdf |ref=none }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{cite book|title=Bravest of the Brave: true story of Wing Commander Tommy Yeo-Thomas – SOE Secret Agent Codename, the White Rabbit|last=Seaman|first=Mark|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books|year=1997|isbn=978-1-85479-650-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book|title=Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war|last=Seaman|first=Mark|publisher=Routledge|year=2006|isbn=0-415-38455-9}}
* {{cite book| last=Seymour-Jones| first=Carole| title=She landed by Moonlight| publisher=Hodder & Stoughton| location=London| year=2013| isbn=978-1-444-72460-8}} <!-- Biography of Pearl Witherington, who led F Section's "Wrestler" circuit in Central France -->
* {{cite book| title=WWII Codebreakers and Spies| last=Smith| first=William| year=2019| publisher=Andre Deutsch| location=London| isbn=978-0-233-00602-4}}
* {{cite book|title=Spymistress: the Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II|last=Stevenson|first=William|publisher=Arcade|year=2006|isbn=978-1-55970-763-3|url=https://archive.org/details/spymistresslifeo00will}} <!-- Biography of [[Vera Atkins]], of whom [[James Bond]] creator [[Ian Fleming]] said, "In the real world of spies, Vera Atkins was the boss." -->
*Thompson, E. P (1947). Taylor, J. R. P (2024). There is A Spirit in Europe: A Memoir of Frank Thompson. Imprint Lulu. E. P. Thompson's first book in memory of his SOE brother executed by fascists: Bulgaria 1944. Re-released Brittunculi Records & Books: ISBN 9781304479525.
* {{cite book |title=Odette: The Story of a British Agent |last=Tickell |first=Jerrard |publisher=Chapman & Hall |year=1949 |location=London |author-link=Jerrard Tickell }} <!-- tells the story of [[Odette Sansom|Odette Sansom-Hallowes]] -->
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'''Commentaries'''
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* {{cite book |last1=Geraghty |first1=Tony |title=The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict between the IRA and British Intelligence |year=2000 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=9780801864568 |url=https://archive.org/details/irishwarhiddenco00mrto |via=Archive Foundation |url-access=registration |quote=Tony Geraghty }}
* {{cite book |title=The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerillas 1939–45 |last=Hastings |first=Max |publisher=William Collins |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-00-750374-2 |location=London |author-link=Max Hastings}}
* {{cite book |url=http://www.dundurn.com/books/most-ungentlemanly-way-war |title=A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War |last1=Horn |first1=Bernd |year=2016 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=9781459732797 |location=Toronto |access-date=9 February 2016 |archive-date=2 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602015323/https://www.dundurn.com/books/Most-Ungentlemanly-Way-War |url-status=dead }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180909224937/http://www.wargen.org/wiki/index.php/Major_GTR_Thompson "Notes on S.O.E., 1941 to 1943"], written by a member of the Belgian Section, Major G.T.R. Thompson, in 1963
* [https://archive.today/20130114024836/http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/nostalgia/pacifist-led-army-Nazis/article-956305-detail/article.html Interview with secret agent Francis Cammaerts in the Leicester Mercury]
* [http://nigelperrin.com/soeagents.htm Profiles of Special Operations Executive Agents in France] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121093457/http://www.nigelperrin.com/soeagents.htm |date=21 November 2012 }} at Nigel Perrin's site
* [http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/emerson00/soe_gubbins_marks.html Colin Gubbins, Leo Marks and SOE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515225714/http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/emerson00/soe_gubbins_marks.html |date=15 May 2011 }}
* [http://dudleynewitt.weebly.com/ Dudley Maurice Newitt. Director of Scientific Research. SOE.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031023516/http://dudleynewitt.weebly.com/ |date=31 October 2016 }}
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