Name: Exploding Rats and Other Devious Devices of SOE. The Camouflage Section 1941–1945
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Exploding Rats and Other Devious Devices of SOE. The Camouflage Section 1941–1945

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Fonthill Media Ltd

Autor

Craig Moore

Año

2025

N° páginas

176

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24.6x17.2 cm

ISBN13

9781781559659

Exploding Rats and Other Devious Devices of SOE. The Camouflage Section 1941–1945

Craig Moore (Autor) · Fonthill Media Ltd · Tapa Dura

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James Bond has Q Branch to supply him with ingenious equipment to use on his missions; during the Second World War, SOE field agents had the Camouflage Section. The men and women of the Section, hailing from a variety of trades and professions, turned everyday items into concealment devices to carry weapons, ammunition, film, radios, false documents, microfilm and codes. These vessels ranged from oil cans, firewood and ornamental clocks, to record players, water bottles and tubes of toothpaste. Explosives and incendiary devices for industrial and military sabotage were concealed in dead rats, hollowed-out pieces of coal, books, torches, statues and suitcases. Convincing disguises were created to ensure that field agents would pass as locals in whatever region they were parachuted into. Essentially the Camouflage Section was responsible for keeping SOE agents behind enemy lines safe in the most nerve-wracking of circumstances—when under the suspicious gaze of the Gestapo. After the war, SOE’s Camouflage Section was dissolved, but not before its work was collated and published in a secret document. That document remained classified for thirty years. This is the first time it has been presented in book form to the general public.