{"product_id":"behind-the-lines-the-oral-history-of-special-operations-in-world-war-ii-9780312266424","title":"Behind the Lines: The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBehind the Lines: The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II\u003c\/strong\u003e by Miller, Russell. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312266424.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of special operations in the second world war as it has never been told before-directly by those who took part.\n\nCompiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts-many unpublished until now-this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with the Untied States Office of Strategic Services and Britains Special Operations Executive. They parachuted behind enemy lines, often alone, with orders to cause mayhem. Arrest almost always resulted in torture and imprisonment; sometimes in execution\n\nTrained in the black arts of warfare-sabotage, subversion, espionage, guerrilla tactics and undermining enemy morale by the distribution of insidious propaganda-theirs was a war fought in the shadows. Their activities extended to every theatre of operations: in occupied France, equipped with false identities, they played a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Gestapo; in the Balkans they discovered that the fiery politics of the region were as dangerous as the enemy; in the Burmese jungle, in some of the worst combat conditions of the war, they led native marauders in surprise attacks against the Japanese. From Britain they were supported by a team of back-room inventors who produced expertly forged documents and dreamed up ingenious devices like exploding rats and invisible ink.\n\nThe special agents of World War Two really were a breed apart. This is their extraordinary story. In their own words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984621596725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312266421","price":29.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312266424_76520d5b-ba7d-4852-bf3d-c988a8fa1c5c.jpg?v=1778676621","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/behind-the-lines-the-oral-history-of-special-operations-in-world-war-ii-9780312266424","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}