Operation North Pole : unravelling the truth behind the execution of 50 SOE agents in the Second World War
Wynn, Stephen, 1958-2024
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Englandspiel Nordpol, or Operation North Pole, was a successful Second World War counterintelligence operation conducted by Germany's military intelligence (the Abwehr) between 1942 and 1944. On the night of 6th-7th November 1941 two SOE agents, Huub Lauwers and Thys Taconis were parachuted into the Netherlands and dropped over Stegerveld, near Ommen. Lauwers was captured on 6th March 1942, whilst Taconis was captured 3 days later on 9th March. Lauwers was persuaded to send messages back to London by the Germans, in which he intentionally left out two security checks. This should have automatically sounded 'alarm bells' with those who received the messages, but for some inexplicable reason, it did not. Whether this was just a genuine mistake or something more sinister has never been fully ascertained.
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Author:
Wynn, Stephen, 1958-, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2024.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399000130 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.548743940.548
LC class:
D802.N4
Language:
English
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BRN:
4009049
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