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1st Edition

Special Operations Executive A New Instrument of War

Edited By Mark Seaman Copyright 2006

256 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles. This study shows how historians have built on the first international conference on the SOE at the Imperial War Museum in 1998. The release of many records then allowed historians to develop the... Read more

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Glossary

Introduction

1.‘A New Instrument of War’; The Origins of the Special Operations Executive, Mark Seaman

2.Weapons and Equipment of the Special Operations Executive, Paul Cornish

3.SOE and Sea Communications, Brooks Richards

4.Churchill and SOE, David Stafford

5.Hugh Dalton, Poland and SOE, 1940-1942, Terry Charman

6.SOE and Milorg – ‘Thieves on the same market’, Ivar Kraglund

7.SOE in the Low Countries, M. R. D. Foot

8.SOE in Italy, Christopher Woods

9.Resistance from Abroad: Anglo-Soviet efforts to co-ordinate Yugoslav resistance, 1941-1942, Mark Wheeler

10.SOE in Romania, Maurice Pearton

11.SOE in Afghanistan, Bradley F. Smith

12.Don Stott’s ‘Adventures’ in Athens, October-November 1943, Richard Clogg

13.SOE and the Neutrals, Neville Wylie

14.SOE in Albania – The ‘conspiracy theory’ re-assessed, Roderick Bailey

15.SOE and Denmark, Knud V. Jespersen

16.Hitler’s Irish hideout; A case study of SOE’s black propaganda battles, Eunan O’Halpin

17.‘Of historical interest only’ – The origins and vicissitudes of the SOE Archive, Duncan Stuart

Index

Editor(s)

Biography

Edited by Seaman, Mark

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