Sabotage and Subversion - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752457381 ISBN 13: 9780752457383

Publisher: The History Press, 2010

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 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.

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Thirteen special operations by British and American agents told in gripping detail

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0752457381
• ISBN 13: 9780752457383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268