Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.
Contents:
Backroom heroes. Enrico Fermi -- Howard Florey -- Reginald Jones -- Reginald Mitchell -- Robert Oppenheimer -- Alan Turing -- Robert Watson-Watt -- Barnes Wallis -- Espionage heroes. Eddie Chapman -- Eric Erickson -- Christine Granville -- Virginia Hall -- Knut Haukelid -- Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan -- Fitzroy Maclean -- Ewen Montagu -- Eileen Nearne -- Dusan Popov -- Juan Pujol Garcia -- Odette Sansom -- Leonard Siffleet -- Richard Sorge -- Violette Szabo -- Leopold Trepper -- Nancy Wake -- Forest Yeo-Thomas -- Resistance heroes. Mordechai Anielewicz -- Ludwig Beck -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Andrée Borrel -- Pierre Brossolette -- Wilhelm Canaris -- André Dewavrin -- Clemens von Galen -- Jean Moulin -- Martin Niemöller -- Hotsume Ozaki -- Gilbert Renault -- Sophie Scholl -- Ariadna Scriabina -- Claus von Stauffenberg -- Adam von Trott zu Solz -- Escape heroes. Douglas Bader -- Charles Coward -- Francis Foley -- Varian Fry -- Miep Gies -- Albert Göring -- Pierre Mairesse-Lebrun -- Hugh O'Flaherty -- Alexander Pechersky -- Oskar Schindler -- Irena Sendler -- Chiune Sugihara -- Raoul Wallenberg.
Summary:
Many of the heroes of World War II are well-known, larger-than-life figures. This book is a tribute to the lesser-known but equally amazing individuals -- some working secretly behind the scenes on the home front and others behind enemy lines -- who made just as significant a contribution to the wartime story. It sheds new and timely light on more than 50 of the often unsung heroes and heroines of the world's most destructive war.
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