🔔#Earthquake (#gempa) M3.1 strikes 22 km S of #Soe (#Indonesia) 10 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1825502

Soojad veekindlad sulesallid: Soojad veekindlad sulesallid naistele

Naudi soojust ja stiili igal talvel! Veekindel ja pehme materjal hoiab sind kuivana ja mugavana välitingimustes. https://tootemaailm.ee/soojad-veekindlad-sulesallid/ #sulesallid #veekindel #soe #talv #stil

Soe meeste pusa: Soe ja stiilne meeste pusa talveks.

Hoidke end soojas selle stiilse meeste pusaga, mis sobib ideaalselt jahedamateks hooaegadeks. Telli juba täna! https://tootemaailm.ee/soe-meeste-pusa/ #meestepusa #soe #kampsunid #stiilne #talveks

Pikk ja elegantne mantel: Elegantne ja stiilne talvemantel naistele.

Avasta luksuslik ja soe mantel, mis lisab igale outfitile elegantsi. Ole valmis talveks ja tunne end stiilselt! https://tootemaailm.ee/pikk-ja-elegantne-mantel/ #mantel #elegants #stiil #talvemantel #soe

Kolmeosaline lambavillast komplekt: Soojustatud lambavillast komplekt talveks.

Naudi talviseid sõite kolmekordselt soojuse ja stiiliga. Telli kohe, et muuta iga sõit hubaseks! https://tootemaailm.ee/kolmeosaline-lambavillast-komplekt/ #lambavill #talv #autotarvikud #soe #mugavus

Pehmed ja soojad retuusid: Pehmed ja soojad retuusid talveks.

Mugavad ja stiilsed retuusid, mis hoiavad sind soojas ka kõige külmematel päevadel. Sobivad ideaalselt igapäevaseks kandmiseks! https://tootemaailm.ee/pehmed-ja-soojad-retuusid/ #retuusid #talv #soe #mugavus #stiil

Moody’s Upgrades Outlook on Uzbekistan’s Credit Rating to Positive

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/moodys-upgrades-outlook-on-uzbekistans-credit-rating-to-positive/

#news ⚡ Söder gegen Altersgrenze für Jugendliche bei sozialen Medien: Bayerns Ministerpräsident und CSU-Chef Markus Söder spricht sich klar gegen die derzeit diskutierte Altersgrenze für soziale Netzwerke... https://hubu.de/?p=283445 | #altersgrenze #jugendliche #medien #soe

On June 15, 1936, the Westland Lysander made its debut flight. Originally designed as a recon & co-operation aircraft, it soon became obsolete in that role. But its short takeoff & landing abilities made it ideal for insertion of covert agents in occupied Europe.

#WW2 #Lysander #SOE #STOL

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/today-in-aviation-history-first-flight-of-the-westland-lysander.html

3. In July 1944 Harry escaped having been shot four times from Spain and returned back to the UK. He then served in the SOE at their headquarters in London. Harry Alfred Ree was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), Medaille de la Resistance Française, Croix de Guerre, and the OBE.
Harry was thinking about writing a book about his own life however a month later he died of a heart attack on 15th May 1991, Ewecross, North Yorkshire aged 76. #WW2 #SOE

2. In 1943 he parachuted into France using the code name Stockbroker and joined the acrobat network. Hi mission was to coordinate with the French Resistance. Organizing parachute drops of arms and explosives and carrying out sabotage operations. He participated in sabotage operations including hand to hand combat with a German Officer of the German military police. Eventually Harry was interned in Switzerland and Spain from December 1943 to July 1944. #WW2 #SOE

1. A series of Men & Women at War: Special Operations Executive (SOE):
Harry Alfred Ree was born on 15th October 1914, Chorlton, Lancashire. He was the son of Dr. Alfred Ree a chemist who was from a Danish Jewish family, and Lavinia Elisabeth Dimmick who was American born.
In 1937 he became a teacher at Bradford Grammar School. In 1940 he volunteered for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was commissioned as Captain in the Intelligence Corp. #WW2 #SOE

Armsad lipsukestega kingad: Värv: pruun, must, punane

Suurus: 4-10.5 / tabel allpool

Materjal: kunstnahk

Kontsa kõrgus: 10 cm

Platvormi kõrgus: 2.5 cm https://tootemaailm.ee/armsad-lipsukestega-kingad/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #naistekingad #kingad #mood #disain #soe

Südamega sussid naistele: Mugavad ja soojad sussid naistele

Mõnusad sussid, mis hoiavad jalad soojas kogu päeva. Ideaalne kingitus külmade ilmade jaoks! https://tootemaailm.ee/sudamega-sussid-naistele/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #sussid #mugavad #soe #naistele #kingitus

Introducing… Codename Hirondelle

My forthcoming novel, Codename Hirondelle, is set between 1938 and 1949, and follows the adventures of Jack Rambler, an SOE agent operating behind enemy lines in World War 2, and Ruth Tyler, a police sergeant in the Lake District. The novel is my tribute to the children’s adventure stories I read when I was growing up.

In the 60s and 70s, I read a lot of the children’s classics, beginning with Enid Blyton’s The Secret Seven (starting 1949), and the Adventure series (starting 1944). Then I devoured Hugh Walters’ science fiction classics including Blast Off at Woomera (1957), and Mission to Mercury (1965), before graduating to Arthur C Clarke’s Islands in the Sky (1952), Childhood’s End (1953), A Fall of Moondust (1961) and of course Rendezvous with Rama (1973), which was unusual in being fairly recent when I read it. I remember lending Childhood’s End to Michael Kent, who lived down the road, which would have been the summer of 1976, probably, when I was 13 and about to start secondary school. Michael went to a different school, so I never got the book back.

But my absolute favourite children’s books, then and always, were the Swallows and Amazons series, which I characteristically started by reading the second book, Swallowdale (1931), followed by my all-time favourite Winter Holiday (1933). I was taken to see the 1974 film, which I also loved, and I developed a crush on Kit Seymour, who played Nancy Blackett. Nancy was always my favourite character. (One of the great disappointments of my life was how sick I felt the first time I was on a boat. I’ve got no sea legs at all. Thus went my dreams of learning to sail.)

Suffice it to say, I devoured a lot of children’s adventure books, and whether the children were going into space, or foiling smugglers on secret islands, or messing about on boats, I just couldn’t get enough of those stories.

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Then came Declare (2001), which my favourite book I have read as an adult. Through Declare, I was introduced to the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which in Tim Powers’ hands becomes a fugitive organisation, still existing when it was supposed to be abolished, and undertaking ever-more esoteric operations.

There is something doomed and romantic about the SOE and its agents. So much of what they did in WW2 ended in failure or obscurity, hidden away in secret files. And yet, when it came to disrupting the enemy after D-Day and – with the Resistance – hampering their efforts to mount a defence, their contribution was probably immense. Blowing bridges and railway yards, sabotaging vehicles, delaying troop transports and waging guerrilla warfare. The very secrecy surrounding the organisation meant that people just didn’t know what it did — or even that it existed, or that many of the agents were women. It’s said that Hitler spent half an hour every day being briefed on the latest (suspected) SOE activities. It’s also the case that the Resistance was vital in restoring French national pride and spirit, and the Resistance was bolstered and bankrolled by SOE.

Which brings me back to Codename Hirondelle, my tribute to those children’s adventures I read as a kid—and the SOE. My protagonist, Jack Rambler, is about 20 years old in 1938, but his childhood spent playing spy games and pirates have prepared him for life as an SOE agent. The book covers three stories in three different times and places.

Westmorland, 1949. Someone is mutilating livestock on the fells. Who would do such a horrible thing? Ruth Tyler, a police sergeant based in Ambleside, needs to speak to the fly camper in a hidden valley…

London, 1938. For Jack Rambler, a boyhood of coded messages, daring expeditions, and the art of disappearing was child’s play. Now these very skills unexpectedly propel him into the clandestine world of espionage and his first mission: to infiltrate an occult society with links to Nazi Germany…

France, 1943. On a secret airfield near Belfort, an SOE radio operator waits to meet her new handler, an agent flying in from RAF Tempsford with instructions to trust nobody…

His codename is Hirondelle…

Publication date: 27 June 2025. Kindle is available for pre-order. Paperback will be available on release day.
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#Books #espionage #fiction #HistoricalFiction #Reading #SOE #thriller #WW2

I am, of course, reminded I have some 28mm WRNS dispatch riders and #SOE operative #KrysyinaSkarbek from Bad Squiddo Games yet to paint. Annie offers an excellent line of female figures across numerous eras of history, including #WW2, so at least the #wargaming crowd’s covered.

https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/WW2/c/21735085

Agentes secrètes britanniques en mission dans la #résistance française 🇫🇷: une histoire méconnue.

Sur les 470 agents de la #SectionF du #SOE déployés sur le territoire français, 39 étaient des femmes, âgées de 19 à 51 ans, , certaines mères de jeunes enfants. Recrutées pour la plupart dans la société civile, elles formaient un panel très varié, tant par leurs nationalités que par leurs origines sociales.

https://www.rfi.fr/fr/connaissances/20250519-agentes-secr%C3%A8tes-britanniques-en-mission-dans-la-r%C3%A9sistance-fran%C3%A7aise-une-histoire-m%C3%A9connue via @RFI

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#80ans #2GM #WW2
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May 11, 1905: On this date future Special Operations Executive agent Lise de Baissac was born in Mauritius. One of the 1st female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France in 1942, she served as courier & liaison officer for the SCIENTIST circuit operating using code names Odile & Marguerite. She armed & organized French resistance forces. She survived the war & her exploits were later recalled in the 2008 French film 'Les Femmes de l’ombre.'
#WW2 #SOE #FSection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_de_Baissac

🔔#Earthquake (#gempa) M2.6 strikes 13 km W of #Soe (#Indonesia) 14 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1806360

Georges Begue (AKA Bombproof) was the first Special Operations Executive agent parachuted into Nazi occupied France. On this date (May 6, 1941), he sent the 1st radio message to London.

#WW2 #SOE #FSection

Hat Tip: @claremulley