The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War (eBook, ePUB)

Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
Redaktion: Wylie, Neville

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134166497
• Artikelnr.: 42669858

Autorenporträt

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