Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, by Giles Milton

The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. A
recent twenty twenty four film told the story, although fictionalized,
a bit, of the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a top
secret group founded and backed by Winston Churchill with one
goal the destruction of Hitler's war machine through the specific
use of sabotage behind enemy lines. We meet the real

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and very smart people behind this movement, many of them British,
some from other countries, who put their talents to use
in supporting the war effort. One actually built a dirty
bond that was instrumental in assassinating one of the most
vicious Nazis ever, Reinhardt Heidrich. The leader is Scotsman Colin Gubbins,
who takes his small group of brave heroes, training and
preparing them to ultimately change the course of the Second

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World War, helping to defeat the Nazis. Read about the
Mavericks who fought at Hitler's defeat Churchill's History of Ungentlemanly
Warfare by historian Giles Milton. The book Club WZ Boston's
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