CLANDESTINE RADIO OPERATORS
CLANDESTINE RADIO OPERATORS

THE CLANDESTINE RADIO OPERATORS

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It is important to pay tribute to those who gave their lives for Freedom in the battle of the Airwaves waged from 1940 to 1944: the clandestine radio operators. The target of a merciless campaign by the Germans, the "pianists", men and women alike, had a life expectancy of just six months...

 

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For the first time, the training received in England is recounted in detail, and five first-hand accounts describe the daily lives of these heroes.

This work also presents the equipment used by clandestine radio operators that enabled agents infiltrated into occupied France to remain in contact with London and later Algiers from late 1942. Most of the radio equipment, some of it extremely rare, is presented in colour for the first time.

Table of contents

The clandestine radio operators. The pianists: men and women of Freedom. Training. The first missions. Stories of radio operators. British sets. American sets. Polish sets. Coding systems. Technical data sheets. Bibliography, interviews and acknowledgements.

The author

Son of a Resistance fighter, enriched by the friendship and trust of veterans, Jean-Louis Perquin came to prominence with the publication of highly regarded articles on the uniforms of Allied special agents parachuted in during the Second World War. In contact with numerous historians and museum curators in the United States, Great Britain, Norway and France, it is with passion and humility that he wrote this title in the Résistance collection.

Author 1
Jean-Louis Perquin
Publication date
March 2011
Pages
112
Illustrations
Approximately 150 photos
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
HISTORY & COLLECTIONS
EAN
9782352501824

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