Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton

The six 'ministers', aided by a group of formidable ladies, were so effective that they single-handedly changed the course of the war. Winston Churchill called it his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men - along with three others - formed a secret inner circle that planned the most audacious sabotage attacks of the Second World War. He was hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Another member of the team, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favourite, Reinhard Heydrich. Read more Print length 368 pages Language English Publisher Picador USA Publication date 7 February 2017 Dimensions 16.21 x 3.38 x 24. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. 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. Winston Churchill selected them because they were wildly creative and thoroughly ungentlemanly. The guerrilla campaign that followed was to prove every bit as extraordinary as the six gentlemen who directed it. In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.

Six gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machine.

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton