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Killing the Enemy - Assassination Operations During World War II (Hardcover)
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Killing the Enemy - Assassination Operations During World War II (Hardcover)
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During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the
'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support
resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in
'targeted killing' - the assassination of enemy political and
military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping its agents with
tools for use behind enemy lines, such as folding motorbikes,
miniature submarines and suicide pills disguised as coat buttons.
But its activities are now also gaining attention as a forerunner
to today's 'extra-legal' killings of wartime enemies in foreign
territory, for example through the use of unmanned drones. Adam
Leong's work evaluates the effectiveness of political assassination
in wartime using four examples: Heydrich's assassination in Prague
(Operation Anthropoid); the daring kidnap of Major General Kreipe
in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor; the failed attempt to assassinate
Rommel, known as Operation Flipper; and the American assassination
of General Yamamoto.
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