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SOE's Ultimate Deception: Operation Periwig

Door Fredric Boyce

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#359371-VC49
Titel
SOE's Ultimate Deception: Operation Periwig
Auteur
Boyce, Fredric
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Stroud : Sutton Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0750940271
ISBN13
9780750940276
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
In the closing months of the Second World War, General Eisenhower exhorted the Western Allied forces to redouble their efforts to break the German will to resist. In considering this appeal, General Gubbins, whose Special Operations Executive was making a significant contribution to the liberation of occupied territory, was faced with a fundamental difficulty in the case of Germany. Although opposition to Nazism was present in some areas, it was neither organised nor pro-Allied. Then someone had the idea of creating an entirely fictional German resistance movement and 'selling it' to the Nazi security authorities.
From January until April 1945, SOE rained propaganda leaflets on the hapless population fleeing the ruins of their cities and the oncoming Allied ground forces; they broadcast m... (Lees verder)essages to the 'resistance'; they planted the most scandalous lies about eminent Nazis; and at the end they even dropped four agents on fictitious missions. This imaginative response to Ike's exhortation and the sheer audacity of the operation itself demand to be told to a wider audience.
Pagina's
244
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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