Six Gentlemen, One Goal: the Destruction of Hitler's War Machine
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.
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.