Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Six Gentlemen, One Goal: the Destruction of Hitler’s War Machine

In  the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London:  its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler’s war machine, through  spectacular acts of sabotage.

The guerrilla campaign that  followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it.  One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the  1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more  devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler’s  favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly  pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world’s leading expert in  silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind  enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men---along  with three others---formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group  of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course of the Second  World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his  Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Giles Milton's Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is  also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.