X Section of S.O.2, a part of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, was formed in November 1940. Just two months later it came under the command of Major R.H. Thornley and, eventually, part of Special Operations Executive. Its role was to establish cha...Daugiau...
When Allied forces landed on D-Day, the Jedburgh teams went into action behind German lines. These usually three-man teams, often composed of one British, one American and one from the country into which they were sent to operate, spread chaos and co...Daugiau...
Winston Churchill faced immense pressure from Stalin, who demanded a second front to relieve the Soviet Unions burden in the fight against Germany. Although military advice suggested that a French invasion was not feasible for at least another year,...Daugiau...
Opened in the spring of 1942 to house captured Allied airmen, Stalag Luft III at Sagan was planned and built to make escape particularly difficult, especially tunnelling. This, though, did not deter the prisoners. Numerous escape attempts followed, i...Daugiau...
It was every British servicemans duty, be he soldier, sailor or airman, to attempt to evade capture if stranded behind enemy lines or escape if captured. As there were potentially thousands of men who would find themselves cut off or captured during...Daugiau...
Until 1943 there was little effective resistance to the German occupation of The Netherlands. Though numerous small opposition groups had formed immediately after the German invasion in 1940, there was no concerted movement or over-arching organisati...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Apr-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526726124)
As early as the 1920s Communist Soviet and then Chinese agents had been infiltrating Malaya and in 1929 the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) was formed with the intention of overthrowing the Malayan Administration and establishing a Communist-controlled...Daugiau...
The all-too frequently cited mantra that the bomber will always get through had dominated Britains strategic air policy in the decades preceding the Second World War. However, the experiences of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz indicated that a...Daugiau...
At 04.08 hours on the morning of 13 June 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty at their post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent. At that moment they spotted the approach of an object spurting red...Daugiau...
From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norways Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitlers Third Reich....Daugiau...
The majority of the successful SOE operations in Europe took place in countries occupied by the Germans after the outbreak of war in 1939, Hitlers forces being regarded as foreign invaders. In Czechoslovakia it was different. The majority of...Daugiau...
The key roles played by the Royal Observer Corps in the Second World War have, all too often, been overshadowed by more glamourous arms of the defense forces. The teams in the Sector Stations, plotting the battles raging above, and the Spitfires and...Daugiau...
From a small number of clandestine activities against the German occupation of Denmark in 1940, a sophisticated resistance movement developed which by 1944, with the support of Special Operations Executive, had become a highly effective intelligence...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Oct-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526790873)
The all-too frequently cited mantra that the bomber will always get through had dominated Britains strategic air policy in the decades preceding the Second World War. However, the experiences of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz indicated that a...Daugiau...
At 04.08 hours on the morning of 13 June 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty at their post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent. At that moment they spotted the approach of an object spurting red...Daugiau...
Winston Churchill was under pressure. The Soviets felt that they were fighting the Germans by themselves. Stalin demanded that Britain should open a second front to draw German forces away from the east. Though the advice Churchill received from his...Daugiau...
