1st Edition
The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
1. Introduction: Politics and Strategy in the Clandestine War – new perspectives in the study of S.O.E. Neville Wylie 2. ‘Of Historical Interest Only’: The origins and vicissitudes of the SOE Archive Duncan Stuart 3. A glass half full – Some thoughts on the evolution of the study of the Special Operations Executive Mark Seaman 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 T. C. Wales 5. Communist in SOE: Explaining James Klugmann’s recruitment and retention Roderick Bailey 6. ‘Kipling and all that’: American perceptions of SOE and British imperial intrigue in the Balkans, 1943-1945 Matthew Jones 7. Ungentlemanly warriors or unreliable diplomats? Special Operations Executive and ‘irregular political activities Neville Wylie 8. A succession of crises: SOE in the Middle East, 1940-1945 Saul Kelly 9. ‘Toughs and Thugs’: The Mazzini Society and Political Warfare against Italian POWs in India, 1941-1943 Kent Fedorowich 10. ‘Against the Grain’: Special Operations Executive in Spain, 1941-1945 David Messenger 11. Special Operations Executive’s Foreign Currency Transactions Christopher J. Murphy Index
Biography
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).
