Guardians of Churchill's Secret Army Men of the Intelligence Corps in the Special Operations Executive

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Peter Dixon, "Guardians of Churchill's Secret Army: Men of the Intelligence Corps in the Special Operations Executive"
English | ISBN: 0993508049 | 2018 | 232 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In July 1940, a desperately weakened Britain licks her wounds after the humiliating retreat from Dunkirk. How can the fight be taken to the enemy? New Prime Minister Winston Churchill orders the creation of the Special Operations Executive, to 'set Europe ablaze' through subversion and sabotage. But this most secret of agencies must be kept secure.

Guardians of Churchill's Secret Army tells the mostly unknown human stories of the men who were brought into SOE, straight from Intelligence Corps training, to do just that. They were junior in rank, but far from ordinary people. They were Australian, Anglo-French, Canadian, Scandinavian, East European and British. They had been schoolteachers, journalists, artists, ship brokers, racehorse trainers and international businessmen. Each spoke several languages.
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