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October 13, 2014. An interesting article on senior air liaison officer Sydney Wigginton OBE, who was killed in a plane crash in September 1945, just a week before he was due to return home. Link: http:/ bit.ly/sydneywigginton. Posted by Nigel Perrin. October 07, 2014. Irish Times article: bit.ly/irishagentsparis. Posted by Nigel Perrin. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Brutus and the Naked Heroine. The Tale of The Goat, The Rat and The Vole. Yeo-Thomas's famous last words. Tweets by @nigel perrin.
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November 2014 | Set Europe Ablaze - Nigel Perrin's SOE Blog
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November 25, 2014. Pippa Latour Doyle, who worked as a wireless operator to Claude de Baissac's SCIENTIST network across Normandy in 1944, has been made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. New Zealand Herald article: http:/ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm? Guardian article: http:/ www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/new-zealand-spy-heroine-awarded-frances-highest-honour. Posted by Nigel Perrin. November 23, 2014. Lancashire Evening Post article: http:/ bit.ly/hjordaan. Posted by Nigel Perrin.
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January 2015 | Set Europe Ablaze - Nigel Perrin's SOE Blog
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January 09, 2015. A BBC World Service documentary on Noor Inayat Khan:. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02fwl80. And a lukewarm review: http:/ www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/08/codename-madeleine-review-noor-inayat-khan. Posted by Nigel Perrin. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Brutus and the Naked Heroine. During some research into the Polish Interallié network I came across the extraordinary and moving life of Lydia de Korczak Lipski. She had . The Tale of The Goat, The Rat and The Vole.
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July 2013 | Set Europe Ablaze - Nigel Perrin's SOE Blog
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July 19, 2013. Mutin returns to Helford. Before taking part in the recent Channel Regatta, Mutin. Formerly HMS Mutin, part of SOE's Cornish flotilla - returned to its wartime home at Helford: http:/ bit.ly/1avRz3V. A 60-foot yawl built in 1926, Mutin. Had been used as a training vessel by the French Navy before the war. In 1940 it was loaned to the British, and after refitting Gerry Holdsworth added Mutin. When Holdsworth left to set up at SOE's Massingham base at Algiers he took Mutin. Given that F....
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February 26, 2015. I have another review in the Times Literary Supplement. This week, on John Jay's Facing Fearful Odds. A biography of his father Alec Jay, a POW at captured at Calais in 1940. Incidentally, the book mentions another Jewish prisoner sent to Lamsdorf, Peter Nagel, who trained with SOE and took part in the St Nazaire raid. Posted by Nigel Perrin. Brutus and the Naked Heroine. The Tale of The Goat, The Rat and The Vole. Yeo-Thomas's famous last words. Patrick Leigh Fermor TLS review.
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June 2013 | Set Europe Ablaze - Nigel Perrin's SOE Blog
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June 05, 2013. Obituaries for Colin Gubbins' secretary Margaret Jackson, who died last week:. The Scotsman: http:/ bit.ly/ZsY9V2. Daily Telegraph: http:/ bit.ly/11hmBFB. Posted by Nigel Perrin. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Brutus and the Naked Heroine. During some research into the Polish Interallié network I came across the extraordinary and moving life of Lydia de Korczak Lipski. She had . The Tale of The Goat, The Rat and The Vole. Yeo-Thomas's famous last words. Tweets by @nigel perrin.
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October 2013 | Set Europe Ablaze - Nigel Perrin's SOE Blog
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October 23, 2013. This week The Telegraph ran an obituary for former F Section agent Arthur Staggs, who died in August. Unfortunately it's somewhat at odds with his SOE file. Http:/ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10385710/Arthur-Staggs.html. Posted by Nigel Perrin. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Brutus and the Naked Heroine. During some research into the Polish Interallié network I came across the extraordinary and moving life of Lydia de Korczak Lipski. She had . Yeo-Thomas's famous last words.
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February 21, 2014. Ois Hollande today announced that Pierre Brossolette's ashes are to be transferred to the Panthéon. He will be accompanied by Jean Zay and, in an attempt to begin to redress the mausoleum's almost exclusively male population, two women resisters, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion. Among the other nominees were Stéphane Hessel, Josephine Baker and Lucie Aubrac. France 24: http:/ www.france24.com/en/20140221-france-charles-de-gaulle-niece-receive-pantheon-honour/.
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Brutus and the Naked Heroine | Set Europe Ablaze - Nigel Perrin's SOE Blog
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March 27, 2013. Brutus and the Naked Heroine. During some research into the Polish Interallié network I came across the extraordinary and moving life of Lydia de Korczak Lipski. She had no links to SOE, but she was clearly something special and her story deserves a mention. In his recent book Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Ben Macintyre states that “When Paris was liberated, so were the hostages”. Unfortunately the truth is much darker. Lydia after liberation in 1945. In 1960 she was ma...