Название: Blood in the Snow, Blood on the Grass: Treachery, Torture, Murder and Massacre - France 1944
Автор: Douglas Boyd
Издательство: Spellmount
ISBN: 0752470264
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 4,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Based on original research and personal reminiscences of French and Allied participants, this story, previously unpublished in English, highlights the cynical disregard for civilian lives shown by British SOE and American OSSNearing D-Day, Allied intelligence used Royal Air Force airdrops to send Allied liaison officers down with supplies to the thousands of young men hiding in France's forests and hill country. Here the officers defied the two principles of guerrilla warfare: never concentrate your forces or risk a pitched battle. They assembled small armies of untrained civilians in wild country where it was believed Allied airborne forces would land and help them drive the hated occupiers out of their country. In reality they were being used as bait—to draw German forces away from the invasion beaches.