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Helena Bonham Carter celebrates WW2’s unsung heroes in new podcast History’s Secret Heroes on BBC Radio 4

In each episode of History’s Secret Heroes, Helena shines a light on ordinary people with extraordinary stories

Highly recommended

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My WWII OC, Madeleine. Chibi style.

...☕?/commission

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VISITA A PRAGA REINHARD HEYDRICH Y LA OPERACIÓN ANTHROPOID 

En la anterior entrada del blog os he dejado un breve timeline sobre Praga. Hoy quiero pararme en un hecho que tuvo lugar durante la época nazi. No es mi especialidad esta etapa de la Historia, por lo que pido disculpas por no extenderme más allá de lo que ha sido mi interés y la curiosidad que me movió a conocer el sitio donde tuvo lugar este hecho histórico. Continue reading VISITA A PRAGA…

VISITA A PRAGA REINHARD HEYDRICH Y LA OPERACIÓN ANTHROPOID 

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S.O.E. - 6 Before Breakfast

S.O.E.’s latest album ‘6 BEFORE BREAKFAST’ is out now on aeproductions.

Purchase Cassette: S.O.E. - 6 BEFORE BREAKFAST

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Call of Duty: WWII Ep. 4: S.O.E.

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I’m playing a game right now called Velvet Assassin. Some of you are laughing at me. It’s a pretty old game, as far as the gaming world goes, it’s practically ancient.

But I’m playing it. I wanted to play it when it came out, but I was a tiny babychild then and didn’t want to play a game where I had to kill people. As an adult, this still stresses me out, but that’s not why we’re here.

I’m here because this is a game--a stealth game--based on the life of Violette Szabo, a female S.O.E. agent in WWII. It’s an incredibly interesting game, and if you have a few bucks burning a hole in your pocket, I suggest heading over to Steam and buying it. This recommendation, by the way, is coming from a person who hates fps and games where you die. I love casual games and point-and-click adventures, as evidenced by my posts about the Nancy Drew game series.

The thing is, I’ve been playing this game after binge-watching Agent Carter Season Two, because Marvel has yet to grace us with a game where we can be Peggy Carter.

But playing this game as an S.O.E. agent--a saboteur, an assassin--made me realize what I want out of season three of Agent Carter (which we’re going to get. Power of positive thinking). I want to see the stuff that was actually in Peggy’s file. The redacted stuff. What she did before being tapped for the S.S.R. I want flashbacks to the morally grey shit she did when she was parachuted into France, or anywhere behind enemy lines.

Peggy was in the war, same as everyone else, only she probably wasn’t wearing a uniform the whole time. she was sneaking, and hiding, and sabotaging, killing, probably. I want to see this. I want to see all the morally suspect stuff Peggy had to do, the stuff that eats her up if she lets it, which isn’t often. I want to know about the families she endangered, the Resistance fighters she was friends with, I want to know about the friend who broke a leg while parachuting behind enemy lines that she killed so they wouldn’t be captured and tortured. I want to see her blow up train tracks, or send messages in the dead of night, afraid the SS is going to find her.

The women of the S.O.E. are a particular interest to me--the fact that the S.O.E. was a real organization that did employ women as spies is incredibly fascinating to me, both as someone interested in WWII and in women’s history. The fact that the S.O.E. was a real organization would allow the show to bring in actual historical figures for Peggy to interact with in potential flashback scenes, like Nancy Wake or Noor Inayat Khan.

Of the S.O.E.’s 55 female agents, thirteen were killed because of their work. The role of women in WWII, particularly women who worked with the military or intelligence agencies, up until very recently, has been sort of pushed to the side. Many women who worked in the military--in the US, at least--were not regarded as military personnel until,I want to say, maybe the past thirty years.

I want to see these women cross Peggy’s path. Women who did their part and risked their lives now being shunted off to the side. I want to see more of the men of the S.S.R. realizing that the women they work with are just as deserving to be there and just as formidable as they. The episode where Peggy vouches for Rose-- “She keeps all of you safe,” was so perfect. I want more of that, of women who do step aside to let the men take their jobs back, but who, like Peggy, know their worth. Women who know they’re made of sterner stuff, and women who don’t act the way they did before the war, because once you know what you can survive, there’s no going back.

Peggy laps all of the men she works with. She didn’t just magically wake up one morning like that. Her training as an S.O.E. agent would have been very different than Thompson or Sousa’s training as soldiers, at least until she joined the S.S.R. Peggy is deadly because she was trained to be. Peggy is covert because she was trained to be. Peggy is good at reading people because her life depended on it at one point.

I don’t think Thompson dug up Peggy’s demons, but I fully believe she has them and I want to know some of them.

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OPERACIÓN FRANKTON: La más intrépida de las misiones...

OPERACIÓN FRANKTON: La más intrépida de las misiones…

OPERACIÓN FRANKTON

LOS LEGENDARIOS COMANDOS BRITÁNICOS QUE HUNDÍAN BARCOS ALEMANES EN LA EUROPA OCUPADA

La Operación Frankton fue una intrépida misión realizada por comandos Británicos a bordo de Kayaks

El antecedente que justifica la realización de la Operación Frankton fue la necesidad de cortar el flujo de suministros industriales que el Ejército Alemán estaba recibiendo y que le permitían…

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Firing Position (Thompson machine-gun, S.O.E.) by Mike Gerrish on Flickr.