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Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War Paperback - 2007

by Colin Beavan

The author of "Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science" pens the thrilling, inside story of the secret "special operations" mission that paved the way for D-Day and changed the way America waged war.


Summary

A thrilling account of one of the most important covert operations of World War II

In 1943, less than a year before D-Day, nearly three hundred American, British, and French soldiers?shadow warriors?parachuted deep behind enemy lines in France as part of the covert Operation Jedburgh. Working with the beleaguered French Resistance, the ?Jeds? launched a stunningly effective guerrilla campaign against the Germans in preparation for the Normandy invasion. Colin Beavan, whose grandfather helped direct Operation Jedburgh for the Office of Strategic Services, draws on scores of interviews with the surviving Jeds and their families to tell the thrilling story of the rowdy daredevils who carried out America?s first specialforces missions? forever changing the way Americans wage war.

From the publisher

Colin Beavan is the author of Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science. He has written for Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Men's Journal, and Wired.

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When Odette Sansom entered, Sergeant Hugo Bleicher, a counterintelligence officer of the Abwehr, stood up from his little wooden table, as if he were a gentleman, and offered her a cigarette.

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  • Title Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War
  • Author Colin Beavan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, London United Kingdom
  • Date April 24, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143112020 / 0143112023
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.41 x 1.01 in (19.71 x 13.74 x 2.57 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.548

Media reviews

They were cloaked in shadow, mystery, and a touch of glamour, the Jedburghs, the most intensely secret warriors of World War II. (Joseph E. Persico, author of Nuremberg)

An exciting story of the lesser known side of D-Day . . . vividly told. (Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945)

About the author

Colin Beavan is the author of Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science. He has written for Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Men's Journal, and Wired.
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