The Special Operations Executive in Malaya

A visitor to Gordon Square, a short walk from the British Museum in London, will find in the north-east corner a bust of Noor Inayat Khan. She was an Officer of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), infiltrated into France during the Second World War. Moving from safe house to safe house, she broadcast intelligence and reports from Paris until the she was captured by the Gestapo and brutally interrogated. Barely thirty years old, she was executed in Dachau. The unveiling of the statue, by Princess Anne, and with not insignificant media interest, in 2012, reminds us that, for many, the SOE occupies a special place in the British collective memory of the Second World War. Stories of derring-do, somewhat bodged yet ingenious sabotage devices, resistance against the odds, courage and muddling through hold a certain resonance; it is all very British, many would say, and familiar. For decades, readers have

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