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I Heard My Country Calling: Elaine Madden, Unsung Heroine of the SOE
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I Heard My Country Calling: Elaine Madden, Unsung Heroine of the SOE Hardcover - 2015 - 1st Edition

by Sue Elliott


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The remarkable true story of SOE heroine Elaine Madden, told for the first time

After a tragic childhood among the Great War cemeteries of Flanders fields, a troubled young woman searches for love and meaning in war-ravaged Europe. Elaine Madden's quest takes her from occupied Belgium through the chaos of Dunkirk, where she flees disguised as a British soldier, into the London Blitz, where she finally begins to discover herself. Recruited to T Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) as a "fast courier," she is parachuted back to the country of her birth to undertake a top secret political mission and help speed its liberation from Nazi oppression. Elaine Madden never claimed to be a heroine, but her story proves otherwise. Its centerpiece--war service as one of only two women SOE agents parachuted into enemy-occupied Belgium--is just one episode in an extraordinary real-life drama of highs and lows, love, loss, and betrayal. Relayed to the author in the final years of her life, Elaine's true story of courage and humor in testing times is more intriguing, more compelling than fiction.

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  • Title I Heard My Country Calling: Elaine Madden, Unsung Heroine of the SOE
  • Author Sue Elliott
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
  • Date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780750961257 / 0750961252
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.5 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.51 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain, Biography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Sue Elliot spent 25 years in broadcasting, where latterly she was in demand as a speech- and ghost-writer for senior TV executives. She is the author of The Children Who Fought Hitler and Love Child.
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