- Publisher: Fonthill Media
- Year: 2018
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 174pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 239x162mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781781557327
- Product code: 541960
The Extraordinary Life of Mike Cumberlege SOE
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A resourceful and experienced skipper, Mike Cumberlege undertook numerous clandestine duties after being called up to serve in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1940. Using material provided by his family, this biography traces his achievements, including fighting in Greece and attacking the Corinth Canal, and a service that culminated with his incarceration at Sachsenhausen.
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This first-ever biography of of Lt. Cdr. Mike Cumberlege DSO & Bar, Greek Medal of Honour, murdered in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Feb/March 1945, recalls a man who was `truly Elizabethan in character-a combination of gaiety and solidity and sensitiveness and poetry with daring and adventurousness-and great courage.' Cumberlege came from a maverick sea-going family. He was highly resourceful and lived by his wits, skippering ocean-going yachts for wealthy Americans before the war. In 1936 he married Nancy; their relationship was close and, with the sea, forms a thread in the book. From 1940 Cumberlege and served in undercover roles in the Royal Navy in Marseilles and Cape Verde and was on the staff of General de Gaulle in London. Posted to Egypt in 1941 in the SOE, he formed a para-naval force of fishing vessels, took part in fighting in Greece, attacked the Corinth Canal, escaped from Crete, was wounded and returned three times to Crete clandestinely. On a second operation to destroy the Corinth Canal in 1943 he was captured. Tortured in Mauthausen concentration camp, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen and spent 21 months in solitary confinement. The book contains unique material gathered from the family and from well-wishers in places as far apart as Ukraine, Australia and the USA.
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A resourceful and experienced skipper, Mike Cumberlege undertook numerous clandestine duties after being called up to serve in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1940. Using material provided by his family, this biography traces his achievements, including fighting in Greece and attacking the Corinth Canal, and a service that culminated with his incarceration at Sachsenhausen.
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