Book description
Edward Yeo-Thomas, GC was one of the bravest of the brave. A fluent
French-speaker, he joined SOE and was parachuted into occupied France
three times to work with the Resistance. Appalled by the lack of help
the British were providing, he managed to arrange a five-minute
meeting with Winston Churchill, during which he persuaded him to do
more. On his third mission he was betrayed and captured by the
Gestapo; he suffered horrendous torture (holding out just long enough
to allow others to escape) before being sent to Buchenwald
concentration camp, from where he eventually managed to escape, and
made it back to Allied lines shortly before the end of the war. Sophie
Jackson's biography reveals new information about how the torture
affected him, the state of SOE-Resistance co-operation, Gestapo typhus
experiments at Buchenwald and Yeo-Thomas's link with Ian Fleming.
Sophie Jackson is a freelance writer specialising in history.
She edited The History Magazine for two years and has written numerous
magazine articles and three books, including Churchill's Unexpected Guests.
