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Mission accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943-1945 David Stafford.

Mission accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943-1945 David Stafford.
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ISBN 1847920659 (hbk.)
9781847920652 (hbk.)
Name Stafford, David
Title Mission accomplished SOE and Italy 1943-1945 David Stafford.
Published London : Bodley Head, 2011
Description xxiii, 392 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. maps ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliography (p. [372] - 377) and index.
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.
Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Italy
Special forces (Military science) -- Great Britain
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