SOE Radio Transcripts and Training Schools

[laughinggas13]

Setting: Occupied France, around about 1943, and UK, same time

I'm writing a historical AU with the basic premise that all the characters are working for the SOE during World War II. I've got a good deal of background-type stuff and a book that gives specifics about dates, weapons, techniques etc (Subversion and Sabotage by Ian Dear). My only issue

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[lil_shepherd]

There is a vast amount of data on the work of the SOE (including a book which includes all the internal memos on a plot to kill Hitler.) However, the one you want is

SOE Syllabus: Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare World War II

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SOE-Syllabus-Lessons-Ungentlemanly-Warfare/dp/190336518X

which contains the complete training manual. The best book on the work of the SOE is undoubtedly The SOE in France by M.R.A. Foot - in fact, Dear and Foot between them, apart from editing the definitive encyclopedia of the Second World War, are the authors to go to on the undercover war in Europe.

[laughinggas13]

That book does sound ideal. *covets*

I've found that some of the books I've got keep citing Foot's book, so I'll have to raid the library for it at some point.

[lil_shepherd]

I'd offer to lend it to you, but as I am in Essex, England, and I suspect you are elsewhere, the library is your friend. (Of course, if you are in Essex or London...)

As someone who used to write in a fandom (Garrison's Gorillas) which is about the undercover war in Europe, if primarily from the US viewpoint, I did a lot of research at one point, then began doing the research for its own sake. It's a fascinating subject.

garrison gorillas zines/fandom

[stbashir9]

I am a big fan of GG and just begun reading some old zines and some stories on the net-are your stories still online?

Re: garrison gorillas zines/fandom

[lil_shepherd]

Ah - the implication! My stories were never on line.

inamac and I published two zines way back when - one was Gorilla Warfare which came in a short/straight and long/slash versions (as well as containing episode guides and character studies, and a novel length slash thing I wrote called Home to Roost - all of the stories, whether slash or straight, are plot and action heavy.

Ina has been transferring her stories onto AO3 (under the names Oriole T and Ina Macallan.) I will, eventually, transfer mine, but it's a big job and I've been funking it.

So, pending that, if you want to email us at lilandina at aol.com I can send you rtf or word files, with the exception of the stuff that is in other people's copyright.