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Albanian Assignment
- Author
- David Smiley
- Narrator
- Shaun Grindell
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 10 August 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In 1940 Winston Churchill established the Special Operations Executive to "set Europe ablaze."
Three years later David Smiley and Billy McLean were parachuted into northern Greece and crossed the border into Albania to do just that.
For the next eight months Smiley mediated between the competing resistance factions and organized them to conduct ambushes and acts of sabotage on fascist armies and infrastructure.
His actions were rewarded with an immediate Military Cross, yet his work in Albania was not done. Soon after he had left the country tensions between the Albanian resistance movements had deteriorated into open conflict meaning that Smiley and McLean were once again forced to parachute into the country to reconcile the guerrilla forces whilst continuing the fight against the Nazi forces.
Smiley's account of his time in Albania is a remarkable book that uncovers the operations and its difficulties of an SOE agent in one of the forgotten fronts of World War Two.
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Details
- Author
- David Smiley
- Narrator
- Shaun Grindell
- Duration
- 6 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 August 2021
- ISBN
- 9781666116502
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: historical, political and military, True war and combat stories, Memoirs, Second World War, Special and elite forces, Military history
Synopsis
Albanian Assignment is one of the finest special forces memoirs to come out of the Second World War. Listeners of Damien Lewis, Ben Macintyre, and Patrick Leigh Fermor will be enthralled by this book.In 1940 Winston Churchill established the Special Operations Executive to "set Europe ablaze."Three years later David Smiley and Billy McLean were parachuted into northern Greece and crossed the border into Albania to do just that.For the next eight months Smiley mediated between the competing resistance factions and organized them to conduct ambushes and acts of sabotage on fascist armies and infrastructure.His actions were rewarded with an immediate Military Cross, yet his work in Albania was not done. Soon after he had left the country tensions between the Albanian resistance movements had deteriorated into open conflict meaning that Smiley and McLean were once again forced to parachute into the country to reconcile the guerrilla forces whilst continuing the fight against the Nazi forces.Smiley's account of his time in Albania is a remarkable book that uncovers the operations and its difficulties of an SOE agent in one of the forgotten fronts of World War Two.
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