Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Churchill's Secret Defence Army: Resisting the Nazi Invader

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

By the spring of 1940, the phoney war suddenly became very real. In April Hitler's forces, invaded Norway and a month later began their assault on France and the Low Countries. The Anglo/French allies were routed. The British escaped to fight another day after evacuating the bulk of their armies at Dunkirk. When on 10 May Winston Churchill became Prime Minister he soon discovered that the nation's defenses were in a parlous state and a Nazi invasion was a very real possibility. By the end of the month, nearly a million British citizens had joined the Local Defense Volunteers, soon to become the Home Guard, of Dad's Army fame. Churchill, however, realized the Home Guard was initially of little more than PR value, an important morale booster. A more serious deterrent needed to be created if Hitler's panzer divisions and the full might of the blitzkrieg were to be thwarted. Consequently, to supplement the sorely ill-equipped regular forces (all of their tanks and most of their artillery had been abandoned in France) a new, British resistance force was required. The intentionally blandly named Auxiliary Units might have been the answer. Formed in the Summer of 1940, in great secrecy, this force of 'stay behind' saboteurs and assassins was intended to cause havoc behind the German front line should the Wehrmacht gain a foothold in Britain. Their mission was to go to cover, hiding in underground bunkers for the first 14 days of invasion and then springing up, at nightfall, to gather intelligence, interrogate prisoners, destroying fuel and ammunition dumps as they went about their deadly business. Each Auxilier knew his life expectancy was short, a matter of weeks. He also knew he could not tell a soul about his activities, even his spouse. 'Dads Army' they were not. Following the publication of his 50th anniversary history of the Battle of Britain, A Nation Alone, written in association with the RAF Museum, Arthur Ward looked deeper into the story of the Invasion Summer of 1940 and enjoyed unique opportunities to interview those involved with Auxiliary Units at the very top and in the front line, as volunteers in a six-man cell.

© 2013 Pen & Sword Military (E-bog): 9781783469352

Release date

E-bog: 19. marts 2013

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II Bret Baier
  2. The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground Justus Rosenberg
  3. Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War Saul David
  4. The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible Saul David
  5. The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 Max Hastings
  6. The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz Jack Fairweather
  7. The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory Roxane van Iperen
  8. Company Commander Charles B. MacDonald
  9. A Polish Voice Sandy Weatherburn
  10. A Week in September Peter Rees
  11. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Christopher R. Browning
  12. Summary of Eti Elboim and Sara Leibovits's The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz IRB Media
  13. The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance Sasha Colby
  14. LEGACY OF TERROR - AUSCHWITZ SEX SLAVE Dominique Friendly
  15. Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945 - Updated Edition Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
  16. Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany Frank Biess
  17. Beyond the Tracks Michael Reit
  18. Inheritance of Secrets Sonya Bates
  19. Famous Soldiers of WWII: Actors Who Fought Raphael Terra
  20. Diamonds in Auschwitz: A Novel Meg Hamand
  21. The Seamstress of Auschwitz: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel C. K. McAdam
  22. Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway Despina Stratigakos
  23. The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War and Peace Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
  24. The Terminal List: A Thriller Jack Carr
  25. The History of the Holocaust Howard Lupovitch
  26. Tjideng Reunion: A Memoir of World War II on Java Boudewijn van Oort
  27. Dancing with the Enemy Diane Armstrong
  28. Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 Andrew Taylor
  29. Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II Catherine Musemeche
  30. The Rest Is Memory Lily Tuck
  31. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II Buzz Bissinger
  32. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence Amy B. Zegart
  33. 12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon Jamie Holmes
  34. Surviving the Holocaust: True Stories Of Auschwitz Survivors & War Crimes Of The Second World War Margalit Kafni
  35. Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe William R. Hogan
  36. Nazi Mind Control Raphael Terra
  37. The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler Peter Eisner
  38. Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945 Ronald C. Rosbottom
  39. The Spy Masters Thrillers Alex Gerlis
  40. Nazi War Secrets Raphael Terra
  41. The Masterpiece: The moving and gripping new historical novel from the much-loved bestselling author of THE MYSTERY WOMAN, for readers of Fiona McIntosh, Natasha Lester and Madeline Martin Belinda Alexandra
  42. Shmuel's Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father Jason Sommer
  43. The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War Catherine Grace Katz

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis