Churchill S Underground Army
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Churchill S Underground Army
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Author : John Warwicker
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2013-09-30
Churchill S Underground Army written by John Warwicker and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with History categories.
'A carefully researched book on a long-neglected subject which fills a major gap in our Second World War knowledge' - Norman Longmate, author of If Britain Had Fallen British Secret Intelligence Service officers and others in the War Office were never convinced that appeasement would prevent a Nazi invasion. Defying high-level opposition, they quietly worked instead on preemptive 'Last Ditch' survival plans. These included a secret resistance network known as the GHQ Auxiliary Units. It was the only one in Europe prepared in advance of an enemy assault. The Auxunits were civilian 'stay-behinds'. One section worked as Patrols, usually consisting of half-a-dozen men in hidden underground operational bases. They were hurriedly selected immediately after the Dunkirk evacuation then trained and equipped with firearms, explosives and booby-traps. Instructed to 'stay-behind' underground as the enemy passed over, they were then to emerge each night to commit mayhem for as long as they could stay alive. Others, men and women, would remain behind above ground, to spy on the enemy and communicate intelligence to the Defense Force by a covert radio network. These Units are still effectively secret and this is the most comprehensive history published to date.
Churchill S Secret Defence Army
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Author : Arthur Ward
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2013-03-19
Churchill S Secret Defence Army written by Arthur Ward and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-19 with History categories.
By the spring of 1940, the phoney war suddenly became very real. In April Hitler's forces, invaded Norway and a month later began their assault on France and the Low Countries. The Anglo/French allies were routed. The British escaped to fight another day after evacuating the bulk of their armies at Dunkirk. When on 10 May Winston Churchill became Prime Minister he soon discovered that the nation's defenses were in a parlous state and a Nazi invasion was a very real possibility. By the end of the month, nearly a million British citizens had joined the Local Defense Volunteers, soon to become the Home Guard, of Dad's Army fame. Churchill, however, realized the Home Guard was initially of little more than PR value, an important morale booster. A more serious deterrent needed to be created if Hitler's panzer divisions and the full might of the blitzkrieg were to be thwarted. Consequently, to supplement the sorely ill-equipped regular forces (all of their tanks and most of their artillery had been abandoned in France) a new, British resistance force was required. The intentionally blandly named Auxiliary Units might have been the answer. Formed in the Summer of 1940, in great secrecy, this force of 'stay behind' saboteurs and assassins was intended to cause havoc behind the German front line should the Wehrmacht gain a foothold in Britain. Their mission was to go to cover, hiding in underground bunkers for the first 14 days of invasion and then springing up, at nightfall, to gather intelligence, interrogate prisoners, destroying fuel and ammunition dumps as they went about their deadly business. Each Auxilier knew his life expectancy was short, a matter of weeks. He also knew he could not tell a soul about his activities, even his spouse. 'Dads Army' they were not. Following the publication of his 50th anniversary history of the Battle of Britain, A Nation Alone, written in association with the RAF Museum, Arthur Ward looked deeper into the story of the Invasion Summer of 1940 and enjoyed unique opportunities to interview those involved with Auxiliary Units at the very top and in the front line, as volunteers in a six-man cell.
Unearthing Churchill S Secret Army
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Author : Martin Mace
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2012-12-19
Unearthing Churchill S Secret Army written by Martin Mace and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-19 with History categories.
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones and memorials of those courageous individuals.Then in 2003, the first batch of SOE personal files was released by the National Archive. Over the course of the following years more and more files were made available. Now, at last, it is possible to tell the stories of all those agents that died in action.These are stories of bravery and betrayal, incompetence and misfortune, of brutal torture and ultimately death. Some died when their parachutes failed to open, others swallowed their cyanide capsules rather than fall into the hands of the Gestapo, many died in combat with the enemy, most though were executed, by hanging, by shooting and even by lethal injection.The bodies of many of the lost agents were never found, destroyed in the crematoria of such places as Buckenwald, Mauthausen and Natzweiler, others were buried where they fell. All of them should be remembered as having undertaken missions behind enemy lines in the knowledge that they might never return.
Churchill S Secret Army 1939 45
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Author : Albert Edward Cocks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Churchill S Secret Army 1939 45 written by Albert Edward Cocks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Churchill S Army
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Author : Stephen Bull
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Churchill S Army written by Stephen Bull and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with History categories.
A fascinating and informative account of every facet of life in the UK army during the Second World War.
Raising Churchill S Army
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Author : David French
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Raising Churchill S Army written by David French and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
David French provides a serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. The book sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale and that it only won its battles through the use of brute force.
Guardians Of Churchill S Secret Army
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Author : Peter Dixon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-25
Guardians Of Churchill S Secret Army written by Peter Dixon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-25 with categories.
Winston Churchill formed the Special Operations Executive in 1940 to take the fight to the enemy through subversion and sabotage. But there was a group of men whose job was to keep SOE secure, to give secret agents the skills that might just keep them alive, deep in enemy territory. Some became agents themselves. This book tells their stories.
Winston Churchill S Toyshop
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Author : Stuart MacRae
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2010-02-15
Winston Churchill S Toyshop written by Stuart MacRae and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with History categories.
The story of Churchill's personal weapons development department, staffed by ingenious boffins, who developed numerous innovative weapons that helped win the war.
Churchill S Third World War
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Author : Jonathan Walker
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2017-05-04
Churchill S Third World War written by Jonathan Walker and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with History categories.
As the war in Europe entered its final months, the world teetered on the edge of a Third World War. While Soviet forces hammered their way into Berlin, Churchill ordered British military planners to prepare the top secret Operation Unthinkable - the plan for an Allied attack on the Soviet Union - on 1 July 1945. Using US, British and Polish forces, the invasion would reclaim Eastern Europe. The controversial plan called for the use of Nazi troops, and there was the spectre of the atomic bomb. Would yet another army make the fatal mistake of heading East? In Churchill's Third World War Jonathan Walker presents a haunting study of the war that so nearly was. He outlines the motivations behind Churchill's plan, the logistics of launching a vast assault against an enemy who had bested Hitler, potential sabotage by Polish communists, and he speculates whether the Allies would have succeeded had the operation gone forward. Well supported by a wide range of primary sources from the Churchill Archives Centre, Sikorski Institute, National Archives and Imperial War Museum, this is a fascinating insight into the upheaval as the Second World War drew to a close and former alliances were shattered. Operation Unthinkable became the blueprint for the Cold War.
Churchill S German Army
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Author : Helen Fry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Churchill S German Army written by Helen Fry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Foreign workers, Austrian -- Great Britain categories.
This is the compelling story of the 10,000 Germans and Austrians who fled Nazi persecution and joined the British forces in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War.