Sabotage and Subversion: The soe and oss at war - Couverture souple

Dear, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0750978538 ISBN 13 : 9780750978538

Editeur : The History Press, 2016

Synopsis

During the Second World War daring and highly unusual missions were mounted by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) – formed on Churchill’s orders ‘to set Europe ablaze’ – and its American counterpart, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In sixteen separate chapters the author describes how the fearless individuals in these clandestine organisations were recruited, trained and armed, and examines some of their guerrilla operations in Europe, Africa and the Far East, such as the raid on Fernando Po, the destruction of the Gorgopotamos Bridge in Greece and the strike against Japanese shipping in Singapore harbour. Also covered are the means SOE and OSS used to subvert the enemy, by employing black propaganda, forgery, pornography and black market currency manipulation. It may well read like fiction but the stories are fact, and shows to what lengths the Allies were prepared to go to crush the Axis powers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

IAN DEAR is an historian with an unusual background in covert warfare. He served in the Royal Marines beofre working in the film and book publishing industries. He became a full time writer in 1979 specializing in military and maritime history and has written a vast number of books on secret operations of the war, including Marines at War, Escape and Evasion and Sabotage and Subversion (both The History Press) and Ten Commando. He spent five years as general editor of The Oxford Companion to World War II and co-edited, with the late Peter Kemp, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750978538
• ISBN 13: 9780750978538
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible