Bibliograph

Mission accomplished, SOE and Italy 1943-1945, David Stafford

Type

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Mission accomplished, SOE and Italy 1943-1945, David Stafford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliography (p. [372] - 377) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mission accomplished

Oclc number

708287811

Responsibility statement

David Stafford

Sub title

SOE and Italy 1943-1945

Summary

In May 1945 Italy was liberated from Nazism and Fascism by the British Eighth and American Fifth Armies. By that time the Italian resistance movement had emerged as one of the strongest in Europe - crucially aided and abetted by the UK's Special Operations Executive. As what Winston Churchill graphically described as the 'red-hot rake of the battle-line' advanced bloodily up the Italian peninsula, clandestine cells in the cities and partisan bands in the countryside fought to free their country from enemy occupation and shape the politics of Italy's post-war future. SOE in Italy, known as No. 1 Special Force, parachuted in dozens of missions to supply the underground with weapons and ammunition, food and supplies. In a remarkable twist it also secretly collaborated with its former enemy, the Italian military intelligence service, and with the Italian navy, which used fast torpedo boats and rubber dinghies to land British agents on heavily defended beaches

Target audience

adult

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Mission accomplished, Special Operations Executive and Italy 1943-1945

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