- Paperback: 848 pages
- Publisher: St Ermin's Press; illustrated edition edition (5 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903608112
- ISBN-13: 978-1903608111
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 451,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Remarkable..not only an outstanding history, but a document without which there can be no proper understanding of SOE, of European reistance and, arguably, of the origins of that sense of European identity now manifested in the EU' - Alan Judd, Daily Telegraph
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At the end of World War II, the Cabinet Office commissioned an eminent academic, Professor William Mackenzie, to undertake a comprehensive secret history of Special Operations Executive. Given access to both personnel and the surviving wartime files, Mackenzie's report was a reference document to be used by intelligence agencies in a future conflict, its audience the very elite of Whitehall insiders. Now, this highly classified account has been made available. Never before have SOE's operations across the world been described in such detail and with total authority. Mackenzie's document explores numerous controversies and reveals dozens of previously undisclosed episodes from Britain's secret war against the Axis. Who were the agents parachuted in Germany? What became of schemes designed to protect Gibraltar from a Spanish invasion? Why did so many circuits suffer enemy penetration? When did SOE decide to collaborate with the NKVD and infiltrate Soviet spies into Eastern Europe? These and other wartime mysteries are packed into one of the most controversial documents of our time.
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The year 1938 opened in an atmosphere which stimulated discussion of revolution and subversive warfare. Read the first page
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If you are looking for stories of heroic deeds and adventures of the Special Operations Executives, then this book isn't for you.
What gives you is an incredible detailed account of the people, the politics and realities of SOE. The book explains on how the SOE developed, how they trained their agents and how they organised partisan resistance in the fields.
The author provides a very unbiased and unromanticised account on the most seeming glamorous and adventurous part of the british war effort.
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