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# Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

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## Customer Reviews

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    Amazing Stories, Beautifully Written
  

*by T***3 on Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2023*

This is an awesome account of so many brave men and women who had an invaluable impact on the last Great War.

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    Audacity, Bravado, And Derring-do
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017*

We're nearing the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, but that conflict continues to exert an unyielding grip on our imaginations, as any visit to the "history" section of a bookstore will reveal.  Most histories focus on the battles and invasions, or depict the war as a conflict pitting Hitler against Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt.  Giles Milton's newest offering chronicles a different war: the one waged by unremarkable looking but earnest men and women laboring in factories and laboratories to supply other nondescript but earnest men and women with the tools they needed to carry out campaigns of sabotage and terror.Winston Churchill was a man of many gifts,  one of the most important being his willingness to engage in lateral or "outside the box" thinking. When he became Prime Minister in the face of what seemed certain defeat in 1940 he immediately sought out and encouraged other lateral thinkers, men willing to be "ungentlemanly" by fighting off what seemed inevitable with every ingenious new trick possible.  In turn these men recruited other men and women, some of them brilliant engineers and mathematicians and all of them gifted with fiendishly clever imaginations, to devise new weapons with which to fight in an underhanded manner.  These  weapons, often made from the most ordinary materials like candies and condoms, were then put into the hands of men who had been trained in  unexpected ways to murder and maim their enemies.The exploits of these brave and ingenious fighters make James Bond films seem tame and  unexceptional in comparison.  Enemy ships apparently safely embargoed in neutral ports were pirated out from under their surprised crews' noses, factories were blown up while being heavily guarded by elite German troops, trains carrying vital supplies were derailed without warning, bridges spanning impossibly steep crevasses were brought crashing down by expertly placed explosives, and perhaps most importantly a Norwegian heavy water plant was sabotaged, destroying Hitler's efforts to create an atomic bomb in the process.I thoroughly enjoyed Milton's recounting of these and many other tales of heroism and valor, replete with nice little human touches here and there, including the heavy water saboteurs who kindly let a Norwegian watchman go and retrieve his glasses before blowing the factory sky-high. If, after reading Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare you are eager for more true tales of derring-do laced with brazen audacity, I suggest Milton's earlier work Russian Roulette or Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat and Rogue Heroes.

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    Mildly interesting book about a very interesting subject
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2021*

I expected this book to be a serious look into how guerrilla warfare got started and maintained in the UK during World War II, sort of a companion book to one of the serious histories about the war, but instead found a mildly interesting book mostly full of general information and memoirs. As such it was not bad, and I mostly enjoyed reading it, but the basic theme of the book seems to be that World War II was largely won by the underground guerrilla movement and I think that is wrong. None of that is meant to detract from the courage of those who were trained and inserted into occupied Europe or to disparage their efforts. Some of their actions were central to the Allied success and the people involved were heroes, one and all, but I believe that the war was largely won by the Allied infantry, armor and air arms.All of those benefitted from the guerrilla efforts and many lives were certainly saved by those same efforts, but the Das Reich Tank Division's effort to get to Normandy to oppose the landings was largely stopped by the overwhelming air superiority of the US and UK air forces. Had they travelled by train, as intended, they would have suffered from the same air attacks that stopped almost all rail operations in that area.There is some interesting information in the book about some of the covert actions, and it is worth reading, but there are also some puzzling comments. For example I have no idea what "algebraic logarithms" are supposed to be. I know about algebra, both regular and modern, and I know about logarithms, but have never heard of "algebraic logarithms". On the other hand it was interesting to learn that the shaped charge came about because of British work on explosives and the genius of some of the people involved in developing explosives for the guerrilla movement.All in all this book is a paean of praise for the efforts of a select and very courageous set of both men and women who gave all of their efforts, and in some cases their lives, to aid the Allied victory. In their own way they were every bit as brave and resourceful as the millions of soldiers, sailor and airmen and air women who fought in World War II and saved us all.

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