Somewhere Near to History The Wartime Diaries of Reginald Hibbert, SOE Officer in Albania, 1943-1944【電子書籍】[ Jane Nicolov ]

＜p＞In July 1943, bored and eager for action having missed his regiment’s assignment abroad, a twenty-one-year-old British officer, Reg Hibbert, answered a call inviting volunteers for mysterious ‘parachute duties’. The call was part of a recruitment drive by Special Operations Executive, SOE, to attract likely young officers for clandestine work in the German-occupied Balkans. By December of that year, he had been parachuted into the centre of British efforts to encourage armed resistance in northern Albania.Albania then had only recently emerged from centuries of Ottoman rule. A land of ancient tradition and custom, protected and isolated by its formidable mountain ranges it was barely known to the outside world. Many of the British officers sent there sensed that they were part of history in the making in this remote and extraordinary world where different groups were not only defying the occupying Axis powers but also competing to determine the postwar future of their homeland. Alth．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る