Target: Italy

Target: Italy

by Roderick Bailey
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 29/04/2014

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Drawing on long-classified documents, Target: Italy is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. It is the first full account of SOE's clandestine efforts to strike at Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia.

It is also the first in-depth history of SOE's attempts at causing trouble inside an enemy country as opposed to an enemy-occupied one, issuing a sobering reminder of the terrible dangers that foreign agencies can encounter when trying to encourage resistance to powerful authoritarian regimes.

This is a compelling tale of desperate daring and sacrifice, climaxing in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war: the delicate and dramatic dealings between the Allies and the Italians that led to Italy's surrender in 1943.

ISBN:
9780571299201
9780571299201
Category:
Second World War
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
29-04-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Roderick Bailey

Dr Roderick Bailey is a historian, broadcaster and bestselling author. A professional historian at the University of Oxford, Roderick is a leading expert in the history of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE).

His previous books include the critically acclaimed The Wildest Province, about SOE exploits in the Nazi-occupied Balkans, Target: Italy, the groundbreaking history of SOE's cloak-and-dagger war on Mussolini, and three bestselling volumes in the Imperial War Museum's Forgotten Voices series.

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