Interview Giles Milton Ungentlemanly Warfare
In the spring of 1940, as World War II embroiled Continental Europe, the British government merged three top-secret services to create an organization dedicated to derailing Adolf Hitler’s onrushing war machine via sabotage, propaganda and other means of irregular warfare. British writer Giles Milton, the best-selling author of nine nonfiction books, chronicles the exploits of the resulting Special Operations Executive (SOE) in his latest work, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, the title a reference to one of SOE’s nicknames. Milton recently spoke with Military History about Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s effective guerrilla campaign against the Axis and the half-dozen men who engineered it.
