Soe: An Outline History Of The Special Operations Executive 1940-46
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the shadows of the Second World War, a clandestine organisation operated beyond the reach of conventional warfare — SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940–46 chronicles the remarkable and often deadly work of Britain's secret army, tasked by Churchill to set Europe ablaze. M. R. D. Foot presents a rigorous and authoritative account of the Special Operations Executive, detailing the organisation's formation, its daring agents, its spectacular successes, and its catastrophic failures across occupied Europe and beyond from 1940 to the war's end in 1946. Drawing on declassified documents and years of specialist research, Foot — himself a wartime intelligence officer — writes with the precision of a historian and the insight of an insider. The narrative illuminates the extraordinary courage of the men and women who were parachuted into enemy territory, the moral complexities of covert warfare, and the bureaucratic battles fought in Whitehall as fiercely as any on the ground. A foundational text in the study of unconventional warfare, this work leaves the reader asking a haunting question: how much of history is shaped not by armies, but by a handful of individuals operating entirely alone in the dark?
Author: M. R. D. Foot
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the shadows of the Second World War, a clandestine organisation operated beyond the reach of conventional warfare — SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940–46 chronicles the remarkable and often deadly work of Britain's secret army, tasked by Churchill to set Europe ablaze. M. R. D. Foot presents a rigorous and authoritative account of the Special Operations Executive, detailing the organisation's formation, its daring agents, its spectacular successes, and its catastrophic failures across occupied Europe and beyond from 1940 to the war's end in 1946. Drawing on declassified documents and years of specialist research, Foot — himself a wartime intelligence officer — writes with the precision of a historian and the insight of an insider. The narrative illuminates the extraordinary courage of the men and women who were parachuted into enemy territory, the moral complexities of covert warfare, and the bureaucratic battles fought in Whitehall as fiercely as any on the ground. A foundational text in the study of unconventional warfare, this work leaves the reader asking a haunting question: how much of history is shaped not by armies, but by a handful of individuals operating entirely alone in the dark?