The Special Operations Executive was formed from several pre-existing organisations to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
This is such a cracking story - I nearly read the whole book right off. A real 'page turner' relating the first hand memoir of an SOE agent caught red handed by the Gestapo in Tunisia in 1943, then held in various concentration camps in Germany for two and a half years.
The author tries in vain to understand how the supposedly civilised German people became the monsters who staffed the Gestapo, the SS and the concentration camps. His ways of surviving the camps was to apply his considerable intelligence. A remarkable testimony which I highly recommend.
Military Vehicle Trust issue 168
This is such a cracking story - I nearly read the whole book right off. A real 'page turner' relating the first hand memoir of an SOE agent caught red handed by the Gestapo in Tunisia in 1943, then held in various concentration camps in Germany for two and a half years.
The author tries in vain to understand how the supposedly civilised German people became the monsters who staffed the Gestapo, the SS and the concentration camps. His ways of surviving the camps was to apply his considerable intelligence. A remarkable testimony which I highly recommend.
Military Vehicle Trust issue 168
Definitely a worthwhile read.
The Armourer, October 2018
Definitely a worthwhile read.
The Armourer, October 2018
I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone. It's a quick read and a very interesting read.
Read the complete review [link=http://www.awargamersneedfulthings.co.uk/2017/11/moonless-night-second-world-war-escape.html]here.[/link]
A Wargamers Needful things
I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone. It's a quick read and a very interesting read.
Read the complete review [link=http://www.awargamersneedfulthings.co.uk/2017/11/moonless-night-second-world-war-escape.html]here.[/link]
A Wargamers Needful things
I really enjoy books that challenge my current understanding and thinking on aspects of the Second World War, and this one fits fully within that criteria. It was an area of the war I confess I knew little about, but this book has been very useful in understanding the complexities of waging total war, and the role of U.K. in Yugoslavia. Chapter 1 sets the scene with a brief history of the Balkans, where religious and racial conflict was the catalyst for the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War. Yugoslavia was born out of the chaos of that war, and ceased to exist in 1941. In 1940, TITO came to power, and dominated the country until his death, after which the country fell apart in an ethnic war of fierce intensity and much barbarism. The essence of the book is exploring why British Prime Minister, Winston CHURCHILL, and the British Chiefs of Staff, switched their support from the Serb Chetniks, to the Communist partisans led by TITO. For British readers, I would suggest it will.. Read more
British Military History, Rob Palmer
I really enjoy books that challenge my current understanding and thinking on aspects of the Second World War, and this one fits fully within that criteria. It was an area of the war I confess I knew little about, but this book has been very useful in understanding the complexities of waging total war, and the role of U.K. in Yugoslavia. Chapter 1 sets the scene with a brief history of the Balkans, where religious and racial conflict was the catalyst for the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War. Yugoslavia was born out of the chaos of that war, and ceased to exist in 1941. In 1940, TITO came to power, and dominated the country until his death, after which the country fell apart in an ethnic war of fierce intensity and much barbarism. The essence of the book is exploring why British Prime Minister, Winston CHURCHILL, and the British Chiefs of Staff, switched their support from the Serb Chetniks, to the Communist partisans led by TITO. For British readers, I would suggest it will.. Read more
British Military History, Rob Palmer
"Spy, lover, scoundrel. Walter Dicketts was the real deal"
To read the feature please [link=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/a-spy-who-stayed-out-in-the-cold-20170921-gyly0x.html] click here [/link]
Sydney Morning Herald
"Spy, lover, scoundrel. Walter Dicketts was the real deal"
To read the feature please [link=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/a-spy-who-stayed-out-in-the-cold-20170921-gyly0x.html] click here [/link]
Sydney Morning Herald
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Carve Her Name With Pride
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris Iin 1921 to an English motor-car dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY (First… Read more...
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Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes
'An intriguing page-turning and personal account of that most secretive of wartime institutions, Bletchley Park, and of the often eccentric people who helped to win the war' – Beryl Bainbridge Bletchley Park, or 'Station X', was home to the most famous codebreakers of the Second World War. The 19th-century mansion was the key centre for cracking… Read more...
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial secrets. Once there, the Nazis spirited him off to Germany.… Read more...
'A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley's and Britain's lost heroes.' Michael Smith The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key participants. Here at last is a book which allows some of them to speak for the first time. Gordon Welchman… Read more...
How to Undertake Surveillance and Reconnaissance offers you a systemic way to learn about these fascinating subjects—what they are and what they are not. In doing so, it will teach you how to employ the unique tradecraft associated with these interesting occupation in order to help you plan and carry out your own recon missions. In a world of growing… Read more...
