Operation Jedburgh, by Colin Beavan

Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War, by Colin Beavan
Penguin Books, 2006
298 pages plus 32 b&w pages of photos, Acknowledgments, Appenddix (Jedburgh teams and their members), Notes, sources and index
Library: 940.548673094 4 BEA

Description
In 1943, less thn a year before D-Day, nearly three hundred American, British and French soldiers - shadow warriors-parachuted deep behind enemy lines in France as part of the covert Operation Jed Burgh. Working with the beleaguered French Resistance, the "Jeds" launched a stunningly effective guerilla campaign against the GErmans in preparation for the Normany invasion.

Colin Beavsn, whose grandfather helped direct Operation Jedburgh for the OSS, draws on scores of interviews with the surviving Jeds and their families to tell the thrilling story of the rowdy daredevils who carried out America's first special-forces mission, forever changing the way Americans waged war.

Table of Contents
List of Maps
A Note on Dialogue
Preface

/Part 1: DAngerous Beginnings
1. Shadow War Setback
2. Resistance? What Resistance?
3. A Spark of Rebellion
4. Uncle Sam Joins In

Part II. The Call for Hazardou Duty
5. A Slim Chance
6. Anyone Here Speak French?
7. We Just WAnt to Fight
8. Shrinks With Notepads

Part III. Makiung Agents
9. Killing Lessons
10. Give Her a Ring and Say Goodbye
11. Happy New Year!
12. Close to Mutiny
13. Eisenhower's Plan
14. Some Shit
15. In Case of Death

Part IV. Initial Targets
16. Suicide Pills
17. Forget About Vengeance
18. Boys vs Panzers
19. "Alles Kaput"
20. Blowing TRains to Bits
21. Back in Action
22. Napoleon's Hat

Part V: Preparing the Fighters
23. Manna of Weapons
24. What Would Dad Think
25. Insubordination
26. The Breakjout Approaches
27. "In Grave DAnger"

Part VI. France Explodes
28. Cobra Strike
29. "A Message of the Highest Importance"
30. Flying Body Parts
31. Arrested
32. Jeds Rain Down
33. Leaving a Man to Die

Part VII. Stopping the GErman Escape
34. Southern Uprising
35. Withdrawal
36. Lioke Shooting Quail
37. "Purification"
38. Surrender
Epilogoe

Acknowledgmenys
Appendix: The Jedburgh Teams and their Members
Notes
Sources
Permissions
Index