Titlebook: Britain and European Resistance, 1940-45; David Stafford Book 1983 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1983 Bri

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Britain and European Resistance, 1940-45978-1-349-06747-3Series ISSN 2633-5964 Series E-ISSN 2633-5972

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72746-0us about British expectations of European resistance to Nazism and the potentialities of SOE? This chapter, in describing the origins of SOE, will suggest answers to these questions. To begin with, something needs to be said about the assumptions underlying British strategic thinking on the eve of the Second World War.

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Introduction,ore than simply the passive object of ideological conflict and division imposed by the two postwar superpowers, in terms of which it is still too often exclusively discussed, then the social, political, and ideological struggles within occupied wartime Europe were crucial originating elements in the

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,The Origins of SOE, 1939–1940, scope of mere intelligence gathering. Their job was to carry out various forms of subversion and propaganda. It was only in July 1940, however, that these activities were brought under the control of one central organisation, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). What did the British expect these

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A Lean Year, 1941 was to make it plain that there was a considerable distance between the dream and the reality. SOE was not yet operational, and the slow and difficult process of creating the administrative and logistical framework necessary for carrying out its task was to consume most of its energies. It was