Kill the Fuhrer

Section X and Operation Foxley

Denis Rigden (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2009
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7524-5473-3 (ISBN)

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During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the tantalisingly complex task of investigating how, when and where their plan could be executed. The section also plotted the killing of Goebbels, Himmler and other selected members of Hitler's inner circle. Only Section X and a handful of other SOE staff had any knowledge of these projects, codenamed Operation Foxley and Operation Little Foxleys. As history has shown, these schemes turned out to be pipe dreams. Even so, Section X, renamed the German Directorate in 1944, made a huge contribution to the Allied war effort through their organised sabotage and clandestine distribution of black propaganda. Denis Rigden describes Section X's efforts to discover as much as possible about the intended assassination targets, and questions whether a successful Operation Foxley would have helped or hindered the Allied cause. Based on top secret documents and private sources and illustrated with archive photographs, 'Kill the Fuhrer' is an intriguing insight into the shadowy world of Britain's wartime secret services.

Denis Rigden was engaged in information and historical research for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for thirty years, having previously been a journalist in Britain and Kenya. He has studied and written about the SOE for several years. He lives in Croydon.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.2009
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 200 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7524-5473-0 / 0752454730
ISBN-13	978-0-7524-5473-3 / 9780752454733
Zustand	Neuware