Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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№ 1407

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£700

An impressive library appertaining to the activities of the Special Operations Excecutive (S.O.E.) in the 1939-45 War and more particularly to agents employed in occupied France (Buckmaster’s ‘F’ Section):

Biographical titles

Binney, M., The Women Who Lived For Danger, The Women Agents of S.O.E. in the Second World War, London, 2002; Braddon, R., Nancy Wake, The Story of a Very Brave Woman, London, 1956; Burney, C., The Dungeon Democracy and Solitary Confinement, both London, 1945, 1st edition and 1952, 1st edition; Churchill, P. [Odette’s husband], Of Their Own Choice, London, 1952, signed by the author, Duel of Wits, London, 1953 and The Spirit in the Cage, London, 1954, 1st edition; Cookridge, E. H., They Came From The Sky [The stories of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cammaerts, D.S.O., Major Roger Landes, M.C., and Captain Harry Ree, D.S.O., O.B.E.], London, 1965; Cowburn, B., No Cloak No Dagger, London, n.d.; Devigny, A., Escape From Montluc, London, 1957, 1st edition; De Vomecourt, P., Who Lived to See the Day, France in Arms 1940-45, London, 1961; Hugh Dormer’s Diaries, London, 1948; Dudley, E., Confessions of a Special Agent [Captain Jack Evans], London, 1957, 1st edition; Escott, B. E., Mission Improbable, A Salute to the R.A.F. Women of S.O.E. in Wartime France, London, 1991; Fuller, J. O., Madeleine [The story of Noor Inyat Khan, G.C.], London, 1952, 1st edition; Goldsmith, J., Accidental Agent, A True and Exciting Story of S.O.E., London, 1971; Heslop, R., Xavier, The Famous British Agent’s Dramatic Account of His Work in the French Resistance, London, 1970; Hue, A., The Next Moon, The Remarkable True Story of a British Agent Behind the Lines in Wartime France, London, 2004; Jones, L., A Quiet Courage [The full story of S.O.E.’s women agents in France], London, 1990; King, S., “Jacqueline”, Pioneer Heroine of the Resistance, London, 1989; Kremer, R., Flames in the Field [The stories of Andree Borrel, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanezky and Diana Rowden]. London 1995; Langelaan, G., Knights of the Floating Silk, London 1959, 1st edition; Martelli, G., Agent Extraordinary, The Story of Michel Hollard, D.S.O., London, 1960; Masson, M., Christine, A Search for Christine Granville, O.B.E., G.M., London, 1975; Millar, G., Road to Resistance, An Autobiography, London, 1979; Minney, R. J., Carve Her Name With Pride, Violette Szabo, G.C., London, 1956, 1st edition; Nicholas, E., Death Be Not Proud [The stories of Diana Rowden, Yolande Beekman, Andree Borrel, Vera Leigh, Eliane Plewman], London, reprint, n.d.; Nicolson, D., Aristide, The Story of Roger Landes, London 1994; Parker, G., The Black Scalpel, A Surgeon With S.O.E., London, 1968; Seaman, M., Bravest of the Brave, The True Story of Wing Commander “Tommy” Yeo-Thomas, S.O.E. Secret Agent, Codename “The White Rabbit” [Actually “FR” Section], London, 1997; Tickell, J., Odette, The Story of a British Agent, London, 1949, 1st edition, together with a Souvenir Programme of the Airborne Forces Security Fund, with features on Odette and her husband Peter Churchill (himself a decorated S.O.E. agent), signed by both of them, her as ‘Odette Churchill’, and a mid-1970s portrait photograph of Odette wearing her Honours and Awards, this also signed but as ‘Odette Hallowes’ (see illustration), and six other autographs in the same style taken from old letters and cards; Walters, Anne-Marie, Moondrop to Gascony, London, 1946, 1st edition; Ward, Dame Irene, F.A.N.Y. Invicta [The story of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, including those of its members who served in France as S.O.E. agents], London, 1955, signed by the author; Webb, A. M. (Ed.), The Natzweiler Trial [An account of the prosecution of those responsible for the murder of S.O.E. agents Andree Borrel, Vera Leigh and Diana Rowden], London, 1949; Young, G., In Trust and Treason, The Strange Story of Suzanne Warren, London, 1959, 1st edition




General Histories


Foot, M. R. D., S.O.E. in France (from official History of the Second World War series), London, 1966, 1st edition, together with his S.O.E., The Special Operations Executive 1940-46 [to accompany the B.B.C. series], London, 1984, and Six Faces of Courage, London, 1978; Buckmaster, M., Specially Employed, The Story of British Aid to French Patriots of the Resistance, London, 1952, 1st edition, signed by the author, and They Fought Alone, The Story of British Agents in France, London, 1958, 1st edition, signed by the author; Ruby, M., F Section, S.O.E., The Story of the Buckmaster Network, London, 1988; E. H. Cookridge, Inside S.O.E., London, 1966; Beevor, J. G., S.O.E., Recollections and Reflections 1940-45, London, 1981; Sweet-Escott, B., Baker Street Irregular, London, 1965; Wilkinson, P. and Astley, J. B., Gubbins and S.O.E., London, 1993; Cunningham, C., Beaulieu: The Finishing School for Secret Agents, London, 1998; Rigden, D. (Introduction by), S.O.E. Syllabus, Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare, World War II, P.R.O., 2001, paperback; Tickell, J., Moon Squadron, London, 1956, 1st edition; Merrick, K. A., Flights of the Forgotten, Special Duties Operations in World War Two, London, 1989; McCall, G., Flight Most Secret, Air Missions for S.O.E. and S.I.S., London, 1981; Johns, P., Within Two Cloaks, Missions with S.I.S. and S.O.E., London, 1979; Bird, M. J., The Secret Battalion, One of the Most Astonishing Battles of the Second World War [in the High Savoy], London, 1964; Pearson, M., Tears of Glory, The Betrayal of Vercours 1944, London, 1978; Marshall, R., All The King’s Men, The Truth Behind S.O.E.’s Greatest Wartime Disaster [The penetration of the “Prosper” circuit], London, 1988; Paine, L., Mathilde Carre, Double Agent, London, 1976 and The Abwehr, German Military Intelligence in World War Two, London 1984; Overton Fuller, J., Double Webs, Light on the Secret Agents’ War in France, London, 1958, 1st edition and her later associated titles, The Starr Affair, The Thoroughly Discreditable Story of an Official British Government Attempt to Brand an Innocent Man Traitor and Thus Prevent Him From Telling the Real Reasons for the Failure of So Many Wartime British Special Operations in France, Maidstone, 1973 and The German Penetration of S.O.E., London, 1975; Giskes, H.J. [Former Chief of German Military Counter-Espionage in N.W. Europe], London Calling North Pole, London, 1953, 1st edition; Kemp, A., The Secret Army [The story of the post-war efforts to establish the fate of S.A.S. and S.O.E. operatives in France], London, 1986

several Ex-Libris, many in original dustwrappers, generally in very good condition (Lot) £250-300