The twins : the SOE's brothers of vengeance
Jacobs, Peter, 1958-2020
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After having set up one of the first underground organisations in France, being captured and escaping over the Pyranees into Spain, brothers Henry and Alfred Newton were delivered the devastating news that the mercy ship carrying their entire families - parents, wives, children - had been torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-boat with the loss of all aboard. From that moment on, the Newton brothers were consumed with a passion for revenge. Recruited by SOE, and known to everyone simply as 'The Twins', they returned to France with SOE and waged their own personal war against the Nazis. For eighteen months they lived on the edge before they were betrayed, and the net finally closed. Here Peter Jacobs reveals the dramatic, harrowing tale of two brothers driven by courage steeped in vengeance.
Main title:
The twins : the SOE's brothers of vengeance / Peter Jacobs.
Author:
Jacobs, Peter, 1958-, author
Imprint:
Cheltenham : The History Press, 2020.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780750989831 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5485
Local class:
940.5485
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2947280