A Cool and Lonely Courage
This is an ENNIE-nominated tragic role playing story game about the women of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) during world war 2, for two to five players.
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Lonely Courage Playtesting
Here are some stories from people who have played the game. The first one is based on the kitchen table recording which can be downloaded on this site. The following ones were told as part of three of the playtests of A Cool and Lonely Courage at Metatopia 2018.
(9 minutes read)
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(9 minutes read)
Review - Between Silk and Cyanide, a code makers war
Leo Marks was the principal code-maker for the SOE during the war. This book which is filled with wry humour and bureaucratic frustration covers his war from 1942-45. He was considered the “one who got away” from Bletchley Park, and has amazing insights into the secret war of the SOE.
(6 minutes read)
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(6 minutes read)
Review - Lonely Courage by Rick Stroud
This is the true stories of seven of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France. The author has taken a chronological view of events from the rise of Hitler in 1933 to the end of the war. Structurally the book has a good table of contents and index, and contains black and white photographs and maps. There is a bibliography of over one hundred books which have been used as sources.
(3 minutes read)
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(3 minutes read)
Stories of Lonely Courage
Here are some stories from people who have played the game. The first one is based on the kitchen table recording which can be downloaded on this site. The following ones were told as part of three of the playtests of A Cool and Lonely Courage at Metatopia 2018.
(37 minutes read)
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(37 minutes read)