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Target: Italy : the secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943 : the official history of SOE operations in Fascist Italy / Roderick Bailey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: viii, 454 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780571299188
Other title:
  • Secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D810.S7
Summary: Tells the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. This book offers an account of SOE's clandestine efforts to strike at Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 940.5486 BAI 1 Available T00572472
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The unknown story of the cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini's Italy in the Second World War.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tells the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. This book offers an account of SOE's clandestine efforts to strike at Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia.

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