Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

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Publisher Description

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine

In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.

The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men—along with three others—formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2017
February 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Picador
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
30.9
MB

Customer Reviews

GS 2021 ,

The most remarkable and educational WW2 that I have read

Extraordinary and revealing history of MI1/SOE and its USA spin-off OSS. Just read it and find out the real truth about the British secret forces and its trainers, inventors and directors. They were far more effective than all the bombers over Europe in WW2 with a few people and ingenious improvised weapons most of which were created by wonders of precise mathematical calculation.

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