A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: The SOE and the Canadian Connection

by Bernd Horn

An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization.

During the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct acts of sabotage and subversion, and raise secret armies of partisans in German-occupied Europe. With the directive to "set Europe ablaze," the SOE undertook a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the Nazi Gestapo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459732790
• ISBN13: 9781459732797
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"