Created by Winston Churchill to sabotage and subvert the enemy in WWII, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was an innovative and at times infamous group, a band fanatically devoted to the Allied cause and willing to do whatever it took to advance it and hamper the Axis - even operating within North America.
Colonel Bernd Horn is a retired Canadian Regular Force infantry officer and military educator. Dr. Horn has authored, co-authored, or edited more than forty books, including No Easy Task: Fighting in Afghanistan and No Lack of Courage: Operation Medusa, Afghanistan. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Foreword
Introduction
1 With Backs to the Wall: Taking Back the Initiative
2 "Setting Europe Ablaze": The Creation of the SOE
3 A Man Called Intrepid: The Beginning of the Canadian Connection
4 Out of Europe: BSC and SOE Operations in the Americas
5 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: The Creation of Camp X
6 Shrouded in Secrecy: Training and the Introduction of Hydra at Camp X
7 Down to Business: Operations in Europe
8 "The Simplest Things in War ...": Clausewitzian Frictions
9 Turning Theory to Reality: Canadians on SOE Operations
10 Reckoning: The Value of the SOE in the Second World War
11 Settling Accounts: The SOE at War's End
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
About the Author