The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill's Mavericks: Plotting Hitler's Defeat
By Giles Milton

Six gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machineIn
the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London:
its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through
spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that
followed was to prove every bit as extraordinary as the six gentlemen
who directed it. Winston Churchill selected them because they were
wildly creative and thoroughly ungentlemanly. One of them, Cecil Clarke,
was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic
caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the
dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favourite, Reinhard Heydrich.
Another member of the team, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner
with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent
killing. He was hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind
enemy lines.Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men -
along with three others - formed a secret inner circle that planned the
most audacious sabotage attacks of the Second World War. Winston
Churchill called it his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The six
'ministers', aided by a group of formidable ladies, were so effective
that they single-handedly changed the course of the war.Told with Giles Milton's trademark verve and eye for detail, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
is thoroughly researched and based on hitherto unknown archival
material. It is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and
derring-do and is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the
Second World War.