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<p><b>Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine</b> <br><br>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.<br><br> 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 Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.<br><br>Giles Milton's<i> Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare</i> is a gripping and
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- Author
- Milton, Giles
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250119049
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.38 / 5 (448 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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