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Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster OBE (11 January 1902 – 17 April 1992) was the leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Apart from his war service, Buckmaster was a corporate manager with the French branch of the Ford Motor Company, in the postwar years serving in Dagenham.
7 de mar. de 2021 · A French World War Two hero who worked as a British agent behind enemy lines had been all but forgotten. But now his story can be told - thanks to a 98-year-old British...
8 de jul. de 2014 · Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster OBE was the leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He died in 1992. They Fought Alone, his memoir of his time as Head of F Section, was originally published in 1958.
This is the second book written by Maurice Buckmaster, head of the F- (French) Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a resistance organization that trained and sent operatives into Nazi-occupied countries during WWII.
22 de abr. de 1992 · Maurice Buckmaster, who trained and controlled Britain's spies in half a dozen European countries under German control during World War II, has died at 90,...
These memoirs of Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster, leader of the SOE's French Section, offer an insight into the courageous triumphs and terrible fates of the SOE's agents between 1941 and 1944.--From back cover
8 de jul. de 2014 · At the head of the French operations stood Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster, the leader of the SOE's French Section. These are his extraordinary memoirs.
