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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Special Operations Executive"”.
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The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: Impact and Repercussions, 1941-48
During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated into Japanese-occupied Malaya. They worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). The MPAJA is regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent …
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Women in a Man's War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
<p>The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was established in 1940 under the directive of Winston Churchill to collaborate with resistance groups, divert enemy military advances and “set Europe ablaze!” As the world’s armies marched across the globe once more, dozens of women found themselves …
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Beset By Secrecy And Beleaguered By Rivals: The Special Operations Executive and Military Operations In Western Europe 1940-1942 With Special Reference to Operation Frankton
… the early development and deployment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain's clandestine secret service created by Winston Churchill in 1940 to 'set Europe ablaze.' It will examine the climate in which SOE was created, the feasibility of the tasks it was expected to perform and …
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Built to Resist An Assessment of the Special Operations Executive’s Infrastructure in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, 1940-1946
… War, the British Government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating ‘all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas’. Although the overseas operations of this branch of the British Secret Services are relatively well known, …
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Only the Dead: The Construction of Memory and Myth in New Zealand’s Lost Battles of the Mediterranean
… in John Mulgan’s account of service with the Special Operations Executive in occupied Greece. A close reading of Patricia Grace’s Tu considers her delivery of the complexity of the Māori wartime experience, in critical alignment with the official record of the 28th Māori battalion. Finally, a …
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British Intelligence Services in Greece, 1940 - 1947
… Services, and in particular the newly founded Special Operations Executive, sought to achieve their aim of stoking resistance in Greece to help the British war effort through a number of operations. The failure of these operations, however, would have a lasting impact on their future work in …
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The rise and origins of Greek resistance during World War 2
… resistance. The first, emanating from the SOE (Special Operations Executive), that was primarily interested in the raising of resistance and was willing to cooperate with any faction towards this. The second emanated from the British Foreign Office, that was primary interested in the retaining …
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More Than Just A Pretty Face: The Women of the SOE and the OSS During World War II
… as secret agents during World War II for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Great Britain and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the United States. The argument presented herein states that the existing historiography featuring female agents oversexualizes and deprives the women …