The Last Ditch
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The Last Ditch

Britain's Secret Resistance and the Nazi Invasion Plans

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Last Ditch

Britain's Secret Resistance and the Nazi Invasion Plans

About this book

Novelists, historians, and theorists have often toyed with the question: what would have happened if the Germans had occupied Britain in 1940? Based on years of persistent detective work, The Last Ditch investigates the German plans and the countermeasures undertaken through the specially formed British Resistance Organization. The very existence of this Resistance movement remained a secret for more than two decades until the silence was finally broken by Lampe. Few would have escaped oppression and inevitable gruesome consequences would have followed. There was to be mass deportation; wholesale appropriations of the country's agricultural, mineral, and industrial produce; and widespread arrests, as revealed in the notorious Gestapo Arrest List—reprinted here in full.Lampe captures the mood of the post-Dunkirk period, setting the tone and immersing the reader in the challenging physical and psychological environment of those critical weeks and months. Although they never went into action, the Resistance was ready and waiting: the last ditch of Britain's defense. So successful was their organization that they became the model for the Resistance and underground movements that were to arise all over occupied Europe. Included within are chilling interviews with key players that modern works cannot duplicate. In telling their story, Lampe relates one of the best-kept secrets of World War II and presents insight into what might have been.

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Information

Publisher
Skyhorse
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781620878088
eBook ISBN
9781628734102

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword by Gary Sheffield
  7. Preface
  8. Maps
  9. 1 ‘The veil of the Unknown’
  10. 2 How to Behave in England
  11. 3 Where to Go in Britain
  12. 4 The Gestapo Handbook
  13. 5 ‘Bring a knife, fork, spoon, cup and plate’
  14. 6 The Men from MI(R)
  15. 7 ‘c/o GPO Highworth’
  16. 8 The First Intelligence Officers
  17. 9 The Hideouts
  18. 10 Scotland
  19. 11 Second Phase
  20. 12 The Secret Sweeties
  21. 13 Stand Down
  22. A Final Word
  23. Appendix A: British Regional Commissioners, Regions and Headquarters
  24. B: Auxiliary Units Intelligence Officers, 1941
  25. C: Auxiliary Units Operational State, 1941
  26. D: Auxiliary Units Group Leaders
  27. E: The Gestapo Arrest List for Great Britain
  28. Acknowledgements
  29. Index
  30. Backmatter