Britain’s Guerrilla Army
Plans for a Secret War 1939-45
Seiten
2024
Pen & Sword Military (Verlag)
978-1-3990-7785-9 (ISBN)
Pen & Sword Military (Verlag)
978-1-3990-7785-9 (ISBN)
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE account of Britain’s complex plans to fight a secret war in the event of a Nazi invasion. When Winston Churchill made his ‘we shall never surrender’ speech in 1940 he was speaking in the knowledge that Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service had already created a civilian guerrilla organisation to oppose any invasion and a separate resistance network to mobilize if the country had been occupied. There then followed a fierce battle between the Secret Intelligence Service and the War Office for the control of guerrilla warfare, and conflicting ideas over the legitimacy of armed civilians.
A multi-layered system of secret organizations was the result. The Auxiliary Units are now the best known of these ungentlemanly forces, but in this perceptive new study Malcolm Atkin unravels the considerable mythology that has grown up around them. He explains their origins and how they were never intended as a resistance organization. Instead, the Auxiliary Units patrols were designed as uniformed guerrilla to support an active military campaign, whilst their Special Duties Branch would spy on the British public as much as any Nazi invader. other Home Guard and army units were also preparing to 'go to ground'. Meanwhile, deep in the shadows, was the real resistance organization known only by its cover as Section VII of SIS – so secret that the first detailed account was not published until 2015, by the present author.
A multi-layered system of secret organizations was the result. The Auxiliary Units are now the best known of these ungentlemanly forces, but in this perceptive new study Malcolm Atkin unravels the considerable mythology that has grown up around them. He explains their origins and how they were never intended as a resistance organization. Instead, the Auxiliary Units patrols were designed as uniformed guerrilla to support an active military campaign, whilst their Special Duties Branch would spy on the British public as much as any Nazi invader. other Home Guard and army units were also preparing to 'go to ground'. Meanwhile, deep in the shadows, was the real resistance organization known only by its cover as Section VII of SIS – so secret that the first detailed account was not published until 2015, by the present author.
MALCOLM ATKIN is a former professional archaeologist and an authority on the English Civil War in Worcestershire. He has also made a special study of home defence and the development of British Intelligence during the Second World War. His many publications include _Cromwell’s __Crowning Mercy: the Battle of Worcester 1651_, _Worcestershire Under Arms: an English county __during the Civil Wars_, _Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939-45_, _Section D for Destruction: forerunner of SOE_, _To The Last Man – the __Home Guard in war and popular culture and Pioneers of Irregular Warfare – secrets of the Military __Intelligence Research department in the Second World War_.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.06.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 60 b&w illustrations; 60 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | South Yorkshire |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3990-7785-6 / 1399077856 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3990-7785-9 / 9781399077859 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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