William Mackenzie’s in-house history of the Special Operations Executive made no secret of the disaster in Holland, long notorious in the secret world as well as in the news media, but entered into few details. The full story is now set out, from SOE’s surviving archives, by a leading expert on the subject, whose ground-breaking SOE in France first appeared 35 years ago. This book tells a series of harrowing stories of confusion, ineptitude, blundering, and courage, placing the minute details in their proper contexts of strategy and history. It also provides the first authoritative account of precisely what happened in a classic case of counter-espionage.
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William Mackenzie’s in–house history of the Special Operations Executive made no secret of the disaster in Holland, long notorious in the secret world as well as in the news media, but entered into few details. The full story is now set out, from SOE’s surviving archives, by a leading expert on the subject, whose ground–breaking SOE in France first appeared thirty–five years ago. This book tells a series of harrowing stories of confusion, ineptitude, blundering, and courage, placing the minute details in their proper contexts of strategy and history. It also provides the first authoritative account of precisely what happened in a classic case of counter–espionage.
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Prof. M.R.D. Foot, CBE was an army officer in WWII, specialising in intelligence for part of it. He then taught history at Oxford & Manchester, where he was Prof. of Modern History. He wrote the 1st official history of SOE in France & introduced & edited SECRET HISTORY OF SOE.
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This review is from: SOE in the Low Countries (Hardcover)
M.R.D. Foot has laid it all out for those interested in this lesser known arena of resistance against Nazi occupation. The many failures and far fewer successes are all detailed. The selfless courage of those who took part in this struggle well deserve this recognition. The courage of the Dutch and Belgian resisters should be an inspiration to a generation now far removed from WW2.
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This book describes the work of the Special Operations Executive (henceforward SOE), the worldwide British secret service in charge of sabotage and subversion, into German-occupied Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg in the years 1940-5. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Low Countries, The Hague, North Pole, Baker Street, Prince Bernhard, War Office, Great Britain, South Africa, North Sea, Queen Wilhelmina, The Times, Bomber Command, First Airborne Division, Radio Oranje, Thame Park, United States, War Cabinet, Zuyder Zee, Army Group, Drooglever Fortuyn, Oxford University Press, Roman Catholic, Air Ministry, Clandestine Communications, Free French New!
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This book describes the work of the Special Operations Executive (henceforward SOE), the worldwide British secret service in charge of sabotage and subversion, into German-occupied Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg in the years 1940-5. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Low Countries, The Hague, North Pole, Baker Street, Prince Bernhard, War Office, Great Britain, South Africa, North Sea, Queen Wilhelmina, The Times, Bomber Command, First Airborne Division, Radio Oranje, Thame Park, United States, War Cabinet, Zuyder Zee, Army Group, Drooglever Fortuyn, Oxford University Press, Roman Catholic, Air Ministry, Clandestine Communications, Free French New!
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- Secret Flotillas: Vol. I: Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany, 1940-1944 (Government Official History Series) by Brooks Richards on 6 pages
- British Intelligence in the Second World War: Vol. 3, Part 2 (British Intelligence in the Second World War) by F. H. Hinsley on 4 pages
- London Calling North Pole by Hermann J. Giskes on 4 pages
- The Double-Cross System: The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents by J. C. Masterman on page 176, page 361, and Back Matter
- They Arrived by Moonlight by Jaques Doneux on page 262, page 324, and Back Matter
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- The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive by Marcus Binney in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Oxford Companion to World War II by I. C. B. Dear in Front Matter
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