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Gubbins and SOE / by Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley.

Title: Gubbins and SOE / by Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley.
Author: Wilkinson, Peter, 1914-2000
Publication: London : Leo Cooper, 1993.

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Additional Authors

Astley, Joan Bright

Description

254 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"General Colin Gubbins was in charge of SOE during World War Two. This is the first biography of a man who was destined to live his life in the shadows. A biography of General Colin Gubbins, who was in charge of SOE during World War II. Gubbins was destined, by the nature of his profession, to live a secretive life, and the book, which incorporates much previously unpublished material, offers revelations about the man and his mysterious mission."--Publisher's website
"A biography of General Colin Gubbins who was in charge of the Special Operations Executive during World War Two and who by the nature of his profession was destined to live his life in the shadows."--Amazon.com

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-247) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The Family 1649-1902 -- The Schools 1902-1913 -- The Shop and The Great War 1913-1918 -- The Service Overseas : Archangel, Ireland, India, 1918-1930 -- The Nineteen-Thirties -- The Polish Mission 1939 -- The MI(R) Mission in Paris 1939 -- The Norwegian Campaign 1940 -- The Ausiliary Units 1940 -- SOE: 1940/1941 -- SOE: 1942 -- SOE: 1943 -- SOE: 1943/1944 -- SOE: 1944 -- SOE: 1944/1945 -- Dissolution -- Aftermath.

ISBN

0850520029

LCCN

gb^94034910^

OCLC

29287424
SCSB-11713315

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library