They Also Serve is a fascinating account of one woman's experiences during World War II within the Special Operations Executive and the WRNS. At the Scandinavian Section of the SOE, Dorothy Baden-Powell was engaged in sending Norwegian saboteurs into occupied Norway and debriefing them on their return to London. After spending a year and a half with the SOE, at the age of 21, she was given an assignment in the WRNS to try to break a ring of enemy spies. During her assignment, she endured the privations of life on the lower deck, assaults by drunken sailors ashore, the unwelcome scrutiny of a particularly unpleasant WRNS Superintendent, and a trumped-up charge and subsequent court-martial. This book is a remarkable story of bravery and dedication and, moreover, is a tribute to all those men and women who served their country during the Second World War.
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Dorothy Baden-Powell was born in 1920, a great granddaughter of Christian Salvesen, founder of Christian Salvesen, PLC. She was in Norway when the war broke out in 1939 and returned to England. She served in the Finnish legation during the Russo-Finnish War. She later moved to the Foreign Office, where she worked in the German section of the Political Intelligence Department, and was transferred from there to the Special Operations Executive in July 1940. Towards the end of 1941 she was seconded to the WRNS. She now divides her time between London and Ireland. She has four children and ten grandchildren. Hale also published her earlier books Pimpernel Gold and Operation Jupiter.
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