The sabotage diaries

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The sabotage diaries

Statement of responsibility

Katherine Barnes

Title variation

Sabotage diaries

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the true story of a daring band of Allied special forces and their covert operations in Nazi-occupied Greece

Creator

• trueBarnes, Katherine

Author

• trueBarnes, Katherine

Subject

• trueWorld War II
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece
• trueSoldiers
• trueBarnes, Cecil Edward, 1907-1952
• trueLife stories -- Law and order | Armed forces personnel
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Personal narratives, New Zealand
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Engineering and construction
• trueGreece
• trueBiographies
• trueSabotage
• trueBattles
• trueMilitary missions
• true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
• trueNew Zealanders
• trueCourage
• trueNew Zealand literature
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- European Theater
• trueNew Zealand
• trueSoldiers -- New Zealand -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiographies
• trueBiography
• trueHistory writing
• trueLife stories
• trueNew Zealand literature

Language

eng

Summary

Based on the wartime diaries of Allied soldier and saboteur Tom Barnes, this account of thrilling WWII wartime deeds deep behind enemy lines in Greece is based on fact but reads like fiction. A thrilling read of wartime exploits, daring, intrigue and resourcefulness, The Sabotage Diaries is the astonishing true story of Allied engineer Tom Barnes, who was parachuted behind enemy lines in Greece in October 1942 with a small team of sappers and special operations officers. Their brief was to work with the Greek resistance in sabotage operations against the German and Italian occupation forces. Under-equipped and under-prepared but with courage to spare, their initial mission was to blow up a key railway bridge, cutting Rommel's supply lines to North Africa, where the battle of El Alamein was about to begin. But Operation Harling-as it was known-was only the start of a lengthy and perilous clandestine mission. Written by Tom Barnes' daughter-in-law, award-winning author Katherine Barnes, and drawn from Tom's wartime diaries, reports and letters, plus many other historical sources and first-hand accounts, this is a vivid and gripping tale of the often desperate and dangerous reality behind sabotage operations

Tone

• trueSuspenseful

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

940.53

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• photographs

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult