Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton

He has contributed articles for most of the British national newspapers as well as many foreign publications, and specializes in the history of travel and exploration. 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.īritish writer and journalist Giles Milton was born in Buckinghamshire in 1966. 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. 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.

Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans.

The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. 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. Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton