RAF Tempsford
Author: Bernard O'Connor
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 1445610418
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Churchill's Most Secret Airfield
Author: Bernard O'Connor
Publisher:
Published: 2013-07-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781445606903
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Author: Damien Lewis
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1623659191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill assigned the task of stopping the unstoppable German war machine. Criminals, rogues, and survivalists, the brutal tactics and grit of these "deniables" would define a military unit the likes of which the world had never seen. When France fell to the Nazis in spring 1940, Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to secretly develop of a very special kind of military unit that would operate on their own initiative deep behind enemy lines. The units would be licensed to kill, fully deniable by the British government, and a ruthless force to meet the advancing Germans. The very first of these "butcher-and-bolt" units--the innocuously named Maid Honour Force--was led by Gus March-Phillipps, a wild British eccentric of high birth, and an aristocratic, handsome, and bloodthirsty young Danish warrior, Anders Lassen. Amped up on amphetamines, these assorted renegades and sociopaths undertook the very first of Churchill's special operations--a top-secret, high-stakes mission to seize Nazi shipping in the far-distant port of Fernando Po, in West Africa. Though few of these early desperadoes survived WWII, they took part in a series of fascinating, daring missions that changed the course of the war. It was the first stirrings of the modern special-ops team, and all of the men involved would be declared war heroes when it was all over. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare focuses on a dozen of these extraordinary men, weaving their stories of brotherhood, comradely, and elite soldiering into a gripping narrative yarn, from the earliest missions to Anders Lassen's tragic death, just weeks before the end of the war.
Churchill and Secret Service
Author: David Stafford
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFra ganske ung var Churchill krigskorrespondent på Cuba og i Indien, Sudan og Sydafrika, og havde stor tiltro til værdien af oplysninger indsamlet af hemmelige agenter i efterretningsvæsenet, og hele sit liv var han stærkt involveret "in the secret world of intelligence, clandestine operations, counter-terrorism, counter-subversion and deception". Bogen her er baseret på mange kilder, en del af dem ikke tidligere tilgængelige eller offentliggjorte, og forsøger at kaste lys over den side af Churchill, med hovedvægten lagt på årene under 2. Verdenskrig, hvor han opbyggede et centraliseret stærkt engelsk efterretningvæsen, hvilket bl.a. resulterede i Bletchley Park, Ultra og SOE-operationerne.
Churchill's Underground Army
Author: John Warwicker
Publisher: Frontline Books
Published: 2013-09-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848327177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A carefully researched book on a long-neglected subject which fills a major gap in our Second World War knowledge' - Norman Longmate, author of If Britain Had Fallen British Secret Intelligence Service officers and others in the War Office were never convinced that appeasement would prevent a Nazi invasion. Defying high-level opposition, they quietly worked instead on preemptive 'Last Ditch' survival plans. These included a secret resistance network known as the GHQ Auxiliary Units. It was the only one in Europe prepared in advance of an enemy assault. The Auxunits were civilian 'stay-behinds'. One section worked as Patrols, usually consisting of half-a-dozen men in hidden underground operational bases. They were hurriedly selected immediately after the Dunkirk evacuation then trained and equipped with firearms, explosives and booby-traps. Instructed to 'stay-behind' underground as the enemy passed over, they were then to emerge each night to commit mayhem for as long as they could stay alive. Others, men and women, would remain behind above ground, to spy on the enemy and communicate intelligence to the Defense Force by a covert radio network. These Units are still effectively secret and this is the most comprehensive history published to date.
Churchill's School for Saboteurs
Author: Bernard O'Connor
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1445611783
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RAF and USAAF Airfields in the UK During the Second World War
Author: Geoff Mills
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2022-03-31
Total Pages: 1069
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Europe. During a seven year period 500 airfields were constructed to serve the needs first of the RAF and later the USAAF as they carried the war to German-occupied Europe. The airfields that were constructed took many different forms from training airfields and Advanced Landing Grounds to grass fighter airstrips and vast complexes used to accommodate heavy bombers. This book charts the history of each Second World War airfield in and around the UK providing a unique insight in to the construction, operational life and post-war history of each airfield. Alongside detailing the history of each airfield, this work comprehensively records the details of each unit that operated from airfields around the UK. The information provided in this meticulously researched book is supported by a wealth of 690 photographs providing an illustration into the life of each wartime station.
Women of RAF Tempsford
Author: Bernard O'Connor
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781445604343
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Sabotage in Belgium
Author: Bernard O'Connor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-05-05
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1291408495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1940 and 1944 forty Belgians were trained in industrial sabotage at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, UK. This book tells the stories of their successes and failures when they were dropped into Belgian. They include: Emile Tromme, Robert Jourdain, Armand Campion, Octave Fabri, Jean Scohier, Jean Cassart, Henri Verhaeghen, André Wendelen, Achille Hottia, Oscar Catherine, Valère Passelecq, Willy Bernaert, Jean Deflem, Léon Kaanen, ? Piquart, Felicien Moreau, Victor Lemmens, Pierre Osterrieth, Pierre Vliex, Frederic Veldekens, Henri Frenay, Jean Woluwe and Jean van Gyseghem, Jean Schools, Leon Engelen, Adhemar Delplace, Francois Mathot, André Berten, Alphonse Mabille, Theo Andries, André Bayet, Pierre Davreux, Léon Joye, Georges André, Maurice Bertrand, Robert Duby, Zephir Braibant, Leon Servais, Raymonde Thonon and André Guissart.
THE SPIES WHO CAME BACK TO THE COLD: An Icelandic saga of secret agents, intelligence agencies, deception, political intrigue and international diplomacy during the Second World War
Author: Bernard O'Connor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-03-03
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1326931350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Second World War, the German Intelligence Service infiltrated specially-trained agents into Iceland to collect military, naval, aviation and meteorological intelligence to be transmitted back to Hamburg by wireless or secret writing. Some agents managed to evade capture for a few weeks but most handed themselves into the authorities shortly after landing. Sent to London for interrogation by MI5, rather than be executed as enemy spies, they revealed their life stories and provided details of their training, their instructors and how they were infiltrated. They included Olev Saetrang, Ib Riis, Sigurjon Jonsson, Jens Palsson, Peter Thomsen aka Jens Fridriksson, Larus Thorsteinsson, Einar Sigvaldason, Magnus Gudbjornsson, Sverrir Matthiasson, Ernst Fresenius, Sigurdur Juliusson, Hjalti Bjornsson and Gudbrandur Hlidar. Three of these spies were 'turned', used as double agents to transmit British-inspired messages to deceive the Germans about Arctic convoys and a fake Allied invasion of Norway.
