The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946

Book Overview

This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the 'non-military' aspects of British special operations in the Second World War.

It details how SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to 'set Europe ablaze', as Churchill memorably put it. This was a task it was meant to achieve by detonating popular resistance against Axis rule, and nurturing 'secret armies', which might be capable of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415650968
• ISBN13: 9780415650960
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"