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.
Giles Milton's 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.
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
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- ISBN: 9781427284877
- File size: 364270 KB
- Duration: 12:38:53
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AudioFile Magazine
Giles Milton's narration of his history of Britain's guerrilla actions during WWII may not appeal to every ear, but it has a vintage authenticity that no polished reader could match. Sounding gruff and a little hard of hearing, Milton puts forth as if determined to be heard above a barroom roar, or to the back row of a cramped lecture hall. His impossible-but-true tales of mayhem inflicted upon the Nazis are still thrilling today, tales of enterprise and daring told with the brisk lack of sentimentality of someone who sounds like he could have been there. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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