Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French industries during World War Two

Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French industries during World War Two
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ISBN-10 : 9781291787306
ISBN-13 : 1291787305
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Book Synopsis Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French industries during World War Two by : Bernard O'Connor

Download or read book Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French industries during World War Two written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late-1943 Harry Rée, one of Britain's secret agents operating in eastern France, witnessed an RAF bombing mission on Peugeot's automobile factory in Sochaux/Montbéliard. As many bombs missed their target, damaging houses and killing innocent French civilians, he was aware that it could turn public opinion against the Allies. With the agreement of his boss in the Special Operations Executive, he approached one of Peugeot's directors and made him an offer: Agree to have your vital machinery sabotaged or have the factory destroyed by British or American bombers. To help the director decide, he was offered compensation by the Allies after the war. When this novel approach proved successful, SOE set up a blackmail sabotage committee which targeted over thirty French factories. Over twenty specially trained agents, both men and women, were infiltrated on missions which included blackmail sabotage. This book details their successes and failures.


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