Setting Europe Ablaze
Author | : Douglas Dodds-Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Douglas Dodds-Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Russell Phillips |
Publisher | : Shilka Publishing |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2024-09-01 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1804430625 |
In the midst of the Second World War, Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret organisation on a mission to sabotage the enemy. Instructed to “set Europe ablaze”, the SOE, nicknamed the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, got to work creating a covert team of secret agents. The resourceful men and women recruited by the SOE risked their lives behind enemy lines committing acts of sabotage, resistance and espionage. Displaying phenomenal bravery, SOE agents worked in a world with no rules, doing whatever they could to help civilians in occupied countries, assist local resistance fighters and make sure downed Allied airmen managed to evade capture. Every act they committed came with a high risk of discovery and potentially execution. Setting Europe Ablaze: The SOE Sourcebook gives you all the tools you need to GM or play in an SOE campaign. With no rigid military ranks or limiting rules to follow, the SOE offers the perfect opportunity to play an RPG set in the Second World War where almost anything can happen. This user-friendly sourcebook is system-neutral, so you are free to use whatever rules you and your players prefer.
Author | : E. H. Cookridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Spiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. H. Cookridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Douglas Dodds-Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John E. Ferling |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195150841 |
Setting the World Ablaze tells the story of the American Revolution and of three Founders who played crucial roles in winning the War of Independence and creating a new nation: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. A leading historian of the Revolutionary era, Ferling draws upon an unsurpassed command of the primary sources and a talent for swiftly moving narrative to give us intimate views of each of these men. He provides both an overarching historical picture of the era and a gripping sense of how these conservative men--successful members of the colonial elite--were transformed into radical revolutionaries.
Author | : Peter Hopkirk |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1848547250 |
'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed. Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.
Author | : Gerard P. Tertychny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Special forces (Military science) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Jacobs |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2015-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473866626 |
A history of the British intelligence group’s operations in France during the Second World War. During the summer of 1940, as Britain was fighting alone for its survival, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, instructed the newly formed and clandestine Special Operations Executive to “set Europe ablaze.” From that moment on the S.O.E. took its own war to Nazi-occupied Europe by conducting a mix of espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance missions, with its F Section dedicated to aiding the liberation of France. The risks and dangers of being associated with the S.O.E were obvious, and the consequences of being caught could only be imagined by those who volunteered. Yet the volunteers still came, from all walks of life, and each a specialist in their own field. Amongst those recruited were Gus March-Phillipps, who led the Small Scale Raiding Force, Peter Churchill, who survived by convincing his captors he was related to the British Prime Minister, Tommy Yeo-Thomas, known to the Gestapo as the White Rabbit, and the legendary Newton “Twins” who waged their own private war against the Nazis simply to get personal revenge. As F Section grew in numbers, it turned to recruiting women and from its ranks came some of the bravest to have operated in occupied Europe. These included women such as Odette Sansom, Vera Leigh, Noor Inayat Khan, Violette Szabo and Nancy Wake. Then, as the Allies invaded Europe in 1944, the S.O.E. inserted small elite teams, known as Jedburghs, deep behind enemy lines to link up with the French resistance and to coordinate more widespread and overt acts of sabotage to prevent the German reinforcement of Normandy. Peter Jacobs describes the extraordinary contribution to the Allied war effort made by the S.O.E. in France and tells the gripping story of the men and women who so bravely operated behind enemy lines, many of whom were betrayed and did not live to tell the tale. It pays tribute to the extreme courage and bravery of the individuals who did exactly what Churchill asked of them; they set France ablaze. Praise for Setting France Ablaze “Overall this is a useful examination of SOE’s operations in France, and a tribute to the courage of so many of the agents who attempted to carry out Churchill’s instructions to ‘set Europe ablaze.” —History of War “A very readable account of the SOE and what went on during the war, from the early days of setting up the operation. . . . This book is filled with the stories of agents being inserted into France from the early stages following the German invasion. . . . A very interesting, and thought-provoking account of SOE operatives, and also a way of remembering the many who never came home.” —Military Modelling Online