Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative
The undercover campaign of the Special Operations Executive in the Balkans during World War II was of great significance to the Allies. The campaign involved constant movement and activity, severe hardship and privation, and ever-present danger from the Axis troops as the SOE established relations with partisan forces and sought to establish control of a complex and vital theatre of war. This insider's description of the SOE's foundation and structure is coupled with accounts of many of its wartime missions.
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Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative
The undercover campaign of the Special Operations Executive in the Balkans during World War II was of great significance to the Allies. The campaign involved constant movement and activity, severe hardship and privation, and ever-present danger from the Axis troops as the SOE established relations with partisan forces and sought to establish control of a complex and vital theatre of war. This insider's description of the SOE's foundation and structure is coupled with accounts of many of its wartime missions.
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Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative

Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative

Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative

Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative

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Overview

The undercover campaign of the Special Operations Executive in the Balkans during World War II was of great significance to the Allies. The campaign involved constant movement and activity, severe hardship and privation, and ever-present danger from the Axis troops as the SOE established relations with partisan forces and sought to establish control of a complex and vital theatre of war. This insider's description of the SOE's foundation and structure is coupled with accounts of many of its wartime missions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781860647796
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/24/2002
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sir Peter Wilkinson served under the legendary Major General Sir Colin Gubbins in the Auxiliary Units and SOE. He commanded the Special Force (SOE) from 1943-45. He joined the Diplomatic Service and served in Vienna, Washington and Bonn and was Ambassador in Saigon and Vienna. In 1972 he became Coordinator of Intelligence at the Cabinet Office.

Table of Contents

Early Years
• School
• Holidays with My Aunts
• Holidays with My Parents
• Cambridge
• Regimental Life, 1935-37
• Czechoslovakia, 1938-39
• Summer Interlude, 1939
• Map: Poland and Romania, 1939
• Poland, 1939
• France, 1940
• Auxiliary Units
• The Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1940-41
• Crete, 1941
• Map: Crete, 1941
• Polish Frustrations, Heydrich's Assassination and the Formation of the Jedburgh Parties
• The "Muddle East", 1943
• A Safe Landing, December, 1943
• Tito Approves
• The Journey North, Christmas, 1943
• Map: Yugoslavia, 1943
• The Journey North: The Third Stage
• A Short Walk in the Third Reich
• The Submarine Fiasco
• The Long March South
• Return to Base
• Summer, 1944: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter
• Alfgar and Charles
• The Drau Crossing
• The End of Clowder
• No. 6 Special Force
• My Marriage
• The Last Round-Up
• Austria: The End of the Road
• Epilogue
• Appendix: No. 4 Military Mission

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