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 of the Second World War:
A cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
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.
384 pages.