Bernd Horn

A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War

The SOE and the Canadian Connection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Created by Winston Churchill to sabotage and subvert the enemy in WWII, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was an innovative and at times infamous group, a band fanatically devoted to the Allied cause and willing to do whatever it took to advance it and hamper the Axis - even operating within North America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781459732797
• ISBN-10: 1459732790
• Artikelnr.: 42749994

Autorenporträt

Colonel Bernd Horn is a retired Canadian Regular Force infantry officer and military educator. Dr. Horn has authored, co-authored, or edited more than forty books, including No Easy Task: Fighting in Afghanistan and No Lack of Courage: Operation Medusa, Afghanistan. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
1 With Backs to the Wall: Taking Back the Initiative
2 "Setting Europe Ablaze": The Creation of the SOE
3 A Man Called Intrepid: The Beginning of the Canadian Connection 
4 Out of Europe: BSC and SOE Operations in the Americas
5 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: The Creation of Camp X 
6 Shrouded in Secrecy: Training and the Introduction of Hydra at Camp X
7 Down to Business: Operations in Europe 
 8 "The Simplest Things in War ...": Clausewitzian Frictions
 9 Turning Theory to Reality: Canadians on SOE Operations 
10 Reckoning: The Value of the SOE in the Second World War 
11 Settling Accounts: The SOE at War's End
Acknowledgements 
List of Abbreviations 
Notes 
Index 
About the Author