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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler'
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250119030
ISBN-13
9781250119032
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236959404
Product Key Features
Book Title
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare : the Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, World / European
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , with its ghastly details and dollops of droll British humor, will reward readers who appreciate military history and good writing. - USA Today (3.5 star out of 4)"A rousing account-and celebration-of World War II's most insidious and devious heroes." -The Wall Street Journal, "Milton is a meticulous researcher and masterful storyteller. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , with its ghastly details and dollops of droll British humor, will reward readers who appreciate military history and good writing." -- USA Today (3.5 star out of 4) "A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!" --Anthony Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Alex Rider Adventure series "A rousing account-and celebration-of World War II's most insidious and devious heroes." --The Wall Street Journal "An exciting, suspenseful tale of international intrigue." --Kirkus "An entertaining read that will keep readers turning the page." --Library Journal
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Prologue 1 1. The Third Man 5 2. Thinking Dirty 20 3. Making Bangs for Churchill 34 4. Sweet Fanny Adams 49 5. The Wild Guerrillas of Kent 64 6. The Enemy Within 80 7. The First Big Bang 96 8. Killing School 111 9. Gubbins's Pirates 128 10. A Deadly Bang 146 11. Masters of Sabotage 163 12. Czech-Mate 176 13. Sabotage in the Mountains 193 14. Man of Steel 211 15. In the Bleak Midwinter 227 16. Enter Uncle Sam 245 17. Gubbins's Trojan War 256 18. Fighting with Hedgehogs 269 19. Operation Gubbins 276 Epilogue 295 Acknowledgements 307 Illustration Credits 311 Notes and Sources 313 Bibliography 335 Index 341
Synopsis
Six Gentlemen, One Goal: the Destruction of Hitler's War Machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine, through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men---along with three others---formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course of the Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.
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