{"product_id":"the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-churchills-mavericks-plotting-hitlers-defeat","title":"The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill's Mavericks: Plotting Hitler's Defeat","description":"\u003cp\u003eSix gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machineIn\u003cbr\u003e\n the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: \u003cbr\u003e\nits purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through \u003cbr\u003e\nspectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that \u003cbr\u003e\nfollowed was to prove every bit as extraordinary as the six gentlemen \u003cbr\u003e\nwho directed it. Winston Churchill selected them because they were \u003cbr\u003e\nwildly creative and thoroughly ungentlemanly. One of them, Cecil Clarke,\u003cbr\u003e\n was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic \u003cbr\u003e\ncaravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the \u003cbr\u003e\ndirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favourite, Reinhard Heydrich. \u003cbr\u003e\nAnother member of the team, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner \u003cbr\u003e\nwith an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent \u003cbr\u003e\nkilling. He was hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind \u003cbr\u003e\nenemy lines.Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men - \u003cbr\u003e\nalong with three others - formed a secret inner circle that planned the \u003cbr\u003e\nmost audacious sabotage attacks of the Second World War. Winston \u003cbr\u003e\nChurchill called it his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The six \u003cbr\u003e\n'ministers', aided by a group of formidable ladies, were so effective \u003cbr\u003e\nthat 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\u003cbr\u003e\n is thoroughly researched and based on hitherto unknown archival \u003cbr\u003e\nmaterial. It is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and \u003cbr\u003e\nderring-do and is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the \u003cbr\u003e\nSecond World War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giles Milton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44217311264828,"sku":"9781444798951","price":1317.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-churchill-s-mavericks-plotting-hitler-s-defeat-9781444798951.jpg?v=1776763223","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-churchills-mavericks-plotting-hitlers-defeat","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}