Titlebook: Britain and European Resistance, 1940-45; David Stafford Book 1983 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1983 Bri

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Survival and Consolidation,ow that strategic planning was more firmly focused on the offensive, and it became clearer than ever that SOE’s work would be subordinated to the general strategic directives of the Chiefs of Staff, its independent existence came under close scrutiny. Attempts were made to restrict the scope of its

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A Year of Troubles,ied offensive for that year would be in the Mediterranean. In this framework, allied strategists seized upon resistance in the Balkans, in particular in Greece and Yugoslavia, as a powerful auxiliary to regular military operations. Here, guerrilla warfare was intensifying in response to both interna

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Invasion, Liberation, and Order,ope, the British war leadership began to define more clearly Britain’s own interests in Europe and what these implied for future relations with Moscow. The lessons of the 1930s and the exhaustion of Britain’s financial power in the course of the war itself indicated that Europe would be more importa

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Epilogue,viet Union, and between the British and the Americans themselves, were becoming more acute, and in Britain itself the end of the coalition government was in sight. The euphoria of September, when the Joint Intelligence Committee had predicted an early endo the war and when Anglo-American forces had

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Conclusion,ce. It was given ambitious tasks with extremely limited resources, and its wartime performance fell short of expectations. But its performance cannot be judged in isolation from the wider context of Britain’s war effort, and much the same conclusion might be reached about the performance of the regu

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72746-0onal movements was conducted almost solely in the context of the British role, and even where this was not the case the strategic, tactical, or political dimensions of resistance led almost inevitably back to the requirements of Allied and therefore British strategy and diplomacy. But how and why di

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Managing Women’s Hyperandrogenismsonal assistant, later recalled that many people found him heavy-handed and a bore. He had, Jebb said, ‘a rather elephantine way of endeavouring to ingratiate himself with people’, his voice was penetrating and deafening, and ‘his eye used to roll round in rather a terrifying way’..; The sins of his

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Stefan Güldenberg,Ekkehard Ernst,Klaus Northrope, where apathy and confusion were still widespread, SOE would have to deal with the governments-in-exile in London, and that this imposed limits on its power which had not been apparent in 1940. More important in the long run was the fact that by the end of 1941 both the Americans and the Russia

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Digital Leadership and Technologyngs took place, produced morale problems in the resistance and helped the Germans to make some spectacular gains against them. The guerrilla campaigns in the Balkans encompassed a struggle for postwar political influence between communists and non-communists, so that strategic objectives on the Brit