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"SET EUROPE ABLAZE"
This was Winston Churchill's terse directive to the secret organisation set up in London in 1940.
It's name was the S.O.E: Special Operations Executive. Its purpose was 'to co-ordinate all action by way of subversion and sabotage against the enemy overseas.'
On nights when the moon was full, aircraft were flown across the channel, and landed behind enemy lines without lights on grass fields and improvised airstrips as short as 150 yards.
They were known as the 'Moon Squadron'. Over the course of a few years, they flew some of the most hazardous missions of the war.
In 'Moon Squadron' Jerrard Tickell tells the story of the'gentlemen of the shade', whose courage and fighting spirit helped turn the tide of WWII, and bought invaluable aid to the resistance fighters of occupied Europe. It is a book that no one interested in World War Two will want to miss.
Jerrard Tickell was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and London. He joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1940 and was commissioned in 1941, when he was appointed to the War Office. Between 1943 and 1945 his official duties took him to Africa, the Middle East, Washington DC, Canada, the West Indies, and Europe. He wrote 21 novels, including the best-selling 'Appointment With Venus', as well as several non-fiction books.
This was Winston Churchill's terse directive to the secret organisation set up in London in 1940.
It's name was the S.O.E: Special Operations Executive. Its purpose was 'to co-ordinate all action by way of subversion and sabotage against the enemy overseas.'
On nights when the moon was full, aircraft were flown across the channel, and landed behind enemy lines without lights on grass fields and improvised airstrips as short as 150 yards.
They were known as the 'Moon Squadron'. Over the course of a few years, they flew some of the most hazardous missions of the war.
In 'Moon Squadron' Jerrard Tickell tells the story of the'gentlemen of the shade', whose courage and fighting spirit helped turn the tide of WWII, and bought invaluable aid to the resistance fighters of occupied Europe. It is a book that no one interested in World War Two will want to miss.
Jerrard Tickell was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and London. He joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1940 and was commissioned in 1941, when he was appointed to the War Office. Between 1943 and 1945 his official duties took him to Africa, the Middle East, Washington DC, Canada, the West Indies, and Europe. He wrote 21 novels, including the best-selling 'Appointment With Venus', as well as several non-fiction books.
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