Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare : the mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat

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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare : the mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat

Title remainder

the mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat

Statement of responsibility

Giles Milton

Title variation

Mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat

Creator

• Milton, Giles

Author

• Milton, Giles

Subject

• Espionage, British -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Gubbins, Colin, Sir, 1896-1976
• Guerrilla warfare -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Europe
• Sabotage -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Friends and associates

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men--along with three others--formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War"--

Member of

• Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/8641

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography