SOE showed itself capable of operating on a global scale and developing the necessary expertise, equipment and personnel to conduct activities across the whole spectrum of what we have come to know as 'covert operations'. By bringing SOE's activities into sharper focus and exposing the scale of its involvement in Britain's wartime external relations, the essays echo current thinking on the place of the so-called 'secret world' in international politics. This book is a collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), exploring the 'non-military' aspects of British 'special operations' over the course of the Second World War.…mehr
SOE showed itself capable of operating on a global scale and developing the necessary expertise, equipment and personnel to conduct activities across the whole spectrum of what we have come to know as 'covert operations'. By bringing SOE's activities into sharper focus and exposing the scale of its involvement in Britain's wartime external relations, the essays echo current thinking on the place of the so-called 'secret world' in international politics.This book is a collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), exploring the 'non-military' aspects of British 'special operations' over the course of the Second World War.
Neville Wylie is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Nottingham, author of Britain, Switzerland and the Second World War (Oxford, 2003), and editor of European Neutrals and Non-belligerents during the Second World War (Cambridge, 2002). He has written a number of papers on intelligence and special operations, including '"An amateur learns his job"? Special Operations Executive in Portugal, 1940-1942', Journal of Contemporary History 36/3 (2001), 455-471 and 'SOE and the Neutrals' in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive (London, 2005).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Politics and Strategy in the Clandestine War - New Perspectives in the Study of S.O.E. 2. 'Of Historical Interest Only': The Origins and Vicissitudes of the SOE Archive 3. A Glass Half Full - Some Thoughts on the Evolution of the Study of the Special Operations Executive 4. The 'Massingham' Mission and the Secret 'Special Relationship': Cooperation and Rivalry between the Anglo-American Clandestine Services in French North Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 5. Communist in SOE: Explaining James Klugmann's Recruitment and Retention 6. 'Kipling and all that': American Perceptions of SOE and British Imperial Intrigue in the Balkans, 1943-1945 7. Ungentlemanly Warriors or Unreliable Diplomats? Special Operations Executive and 'Irregular Political Activities 8. A Succession of Crises: SOE in the Middle East, 1940-1945 9. 'Toughs and Thugs': The Mazzini Society and Political Warfare against Italian POWs in India, 1941-1943 10. 'Against the Grain': Special Operations Executive in Spain, 1941-1945 11. Special Operations Executive's Foreign Currency Transactions Index
1. Introduction: Politics and Strategy in the Clandestine War - New Perspectives in the Study of S.O.E. 2. 'Of Historical Interest Only': The Origins and Vicissitudes of the SOE Archive 3. A Glass Half Full - Some Thoughts on the Evolution of the Study of the Special Operations Executive 4. The 'Massingham' Mission and the Secret 'Special Relationship': Cooperation and Rivalry between the Anglo-American Clandestine Services in French North Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 5. Communist in SOE: Explaining James Klugmann's Recruitment and Retention 6. 'Kipling and all that': American Perceptions of SOE and British Imperial Intrigue in the Balkans, 1943-1945 7. Ungentlemanly Warriors or Unreliable Diplomats? Special Operations Executive and 'Irregular Political Activities 8. A Succession of Crises: SOE in the Middle East, 1940-1945 9. 'Toughs and Thugs': The Mazzini Society and Political Warfare against Italian POWs in India, 1941-1943 10. 'Against the Grain': Special Operations Executive in Spain, 1941-1945 11. Special Operations Executive's Foreign Currency Transactions Index
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