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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Stefan Güldenberg,Jan G. Langhofgle Great Power’ (a traditional British foreign policy objective), and second, ‘the security of our vital sea and air communications in the Mediterranean and elsewhere’. But if the future of Europe was crucial to British interests, and the Soviet Union was to emerge from the war as the predominant p

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Thomas K. Hamann,Stefan Güldenbergtil the end of January. Meanwhile, the renewed Red Army advances early in the year further strengthened the Soviet position in Eastern Europe. In Western Europe, the assertion of British political interests caused considerable controversy. In late November, Churchill intervened to prevent the appoin

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A Cautionary Tale: A Case Study,OE itself. Neither Bomber Command nor SIS, for example, were sympathetic to SOE, and there are . cases to be made for their occasional deliberate obstruction of SOE activities. On the other hand, not all of SOE’s complaints about shortage of aircraft were justified, as in some cases a lack of operat

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Introduction,onal 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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A Lean Year,rope, 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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Survival and Consolidation,ecret Intelligence Service (SIS) claimed its own priorities in areas of Europe clearly earmarked for future invasion, and SOE—SIS relations became particularly problematic. These various claims and interests converged to create a major crisis for SOE in the late winter and early spring. This was sur

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A Year of Troubles,ngs 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

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