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Author | : Bernard O'Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781445606903 |
The fascinating story of the mysterious Tempsford airfield used to ferry secret agents into occupied Europe.
Author | : David Stafford |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Espionage, British |
ISBN | : |
Fra ganske ung var Churchill krigskorrespondent på Cuba og i Indien, Sudan og Sydafrika, og havde stor tiltro til værdien af oplysninger indsamlet af hemmelige agenter i efterretningsvæsenet, og hele sit liv var han stærkt involveret "in the secret world of intelligence, clandestine operations, counter-terrorism, counter-subversion and deception". Bogen her er baseret på mange kilder, en del af dem ikke tidligere tilgængelige eller offentliggjorte, og forsøger at kaste lys over den side af Churchill, med hovedvægten lagt på årene under 2. Verdenskrig, hvor han opbyggede et centraliseret stærkt engelsk efterretningvæsen, hvilket bl.a. resulterede i Bletchley Park, Ultra og SOE-operationerne.
Author | : Bernard O'Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Air bases |
ISBN | : 9781445604343 |
The fascinating story of the Tempsford Women.
Author | : John Warwicker |
Publisher | : Frontline Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781848327177 |
'A carefully researched book on a long-neglected subject which fills a major gap in our Second World War knowledge' - Norman Longmate, author of If Britain Had Fallen British Secret Intelligence Service officers and others in the War Office were never convinced that appeasement would prevent a Nazi invasion. Defying high-level opposition, they quietly worked instead on preemptive 'Last Ditch' survival plans. These included a secret resistance network known as the GHQ Auxiliary Units. It was the only one in Europe prepared in advance of an enemy assault. The Auxunits were civilian 'stay-behinds'. One section worked as Patrols, usually consisting of half-a-dozen men in hidden underground operational bases. They were hurriedly selected immediately after the Dunkirk evacuation then trained and equipped with firearms, explosives and booby-traps. Instructed to 'stay-behind' underground as the enemy passed over, they were then to emerge each night to commit mayhem for as long as they could stay alive. Others, men and women, would remain behind above ground, to spy on the enemy and communicate intelligence to the Defense Force by a covert radio network. These Units are still effectively secret and this is the most comprehensive history published to date.
Author | : Max Ciampoli |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2010-12-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101445599 |
Based upon Max Hardonniere's own experience as a covert operative during World War II, this is the story of a young man whose acquaintance with Prime Minister Winston Churchill would lead to him being recruited and trained as a spy who would fight his own war from behind enemy lines.
Author | : Bernard O'Connor |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445611783 |
The secret life of Brickendonbury Manor & the WW2 assassins & saboteurs who set occupied Europe alight.
Author | : Michael Dobbs |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307960897 |
When Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler’s armies were on the run, and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace—but instead they set the stage for a forty-four year division of Europe into Soviet and Western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was beginning to fracture. Although the most dramatic Cold War confrontations such as the Berlin airlift were still to come, a new struggle for global hegemony had got underway by August 1945 when Truman used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants.
Author | : Damien Lewis |
Publisher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1623659191 |
From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill assigned the task of stopping the unstoppable German war machine. Criminals, rogues, and survivalists, the brutal tactics and grit of these "deniables" would define a military unit the likes of which the world had never seen. When France fell to the Nazis in spring 1940, Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to secretly develop of a very special kind of military unit that would operate on their own initiative deep behind enemy lines. The units would be licensed to kill, fully deniable by the British government, and a ruthless force to meet the advancing Germans. The very first of these "butcher-and-bolt" units--the innocuously named Maid Honour Force--was led by Gus March-Phillipps, a wild British eccentric of high birth, and an aristocratic, handsome, and bloodthirsty young Danish warrior, Anders Lassen. Amped up on amphetamines, these assorted renegades and sociopaths undertook the very first of Churchill's special operations--a top-secret, high-stakes mission to seize Nazi shipping in the far-distant port of Fernando Po, in West Africa. Though few of these early desperadoes survived WWII, they took part in a series of fascinating, daring missions that changed the course of the war. It was the first stirrings of the modern special-ops team, and all of the men involved would be declared war heroes when it was all over. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare focuses on a dozen of these extraordinary men, weaving their stories of brotherhood, comradely, and elite soldiering into a gripping narrative yarn, from the earliest missions to Anders Lassen's tragic death, just weeks before the end of the war.
Author | : Bernard O'Connor |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2010-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445610418 |
The fascinating story of the mysterious Tempsford Airfield.
Author | : Jonathan Asbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781904897361 |
Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it reveals the way that Winston Churchill talked about the conflict in public and in private - and the way that he himself was viewed at the time by family, friends, politicians, military leaders, staff, voters, allies and enemies. Presented in chronological order and accompanied by short year-by-year introductions, the quotations convey afresh the full force of Churchill's oratory, the wit he displayed in the face of often appalling odds, and the hopes and fears that he inspired in those around him. Together they reveal to the modern reader what it was truly like to be locked in a struggle in which victory - or total defeat - was yet to be decided. Together they tell the extraordinary story of Churchill's War in Words.