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UPDATED EDITION of the ground-breaking 2017 publication that offered the first comprehensive account of the work of Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service.When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time' statement in 1938, he may not have been aware that a new section of the Secret Intelligence Service, Section D, was already making plans to mount a political and sabotage war against Nazi Germany.This new form of warfare encompassed bribery, black propaganda and sabotage by agents described as having no morals or scruples. It disregarded the conventions of neutrality and was prepared to hit the Nazi state wherever it could do most damage.A scientific section was established to develop new types of weapons, and membership was extended beyond the traditional public-school old boy network' of British intelligence to work with German and Austrian resistance groups socialists, trade unionists, Catholics and Jews.Section D's plans ranged from leaflet campaigns in Germany, t

Section D for Destruction

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      Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd
      Published 8 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9781399077668
      978-1399077668
      ISBN-10 139907766X
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      Book Synopsis
      UPDATED EDITION of the ground-breaking 2017 publication that offered the first comprehensive account of the work of Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service.When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time' statement in 1938, he may not have been aware that a new section of the Secret Intelligence Service, Section D, was already making plans to mount a political and sabotage war against Nazi Germany.This new form of warfare encompassed bribery, black propaganda and sabotage by agents described as having no morals or scruples. It disregarded the conventions of neutrality and was prepared to hit the Nazi state wherever it could do most damage.A scientific section was established to develop new types of weapons, and membership was extended beyond the traditional public-school old boy network' of British intelligence to work with German and Austrian resistance groups socialists, trade unionists, Catholics and Jews.Section D's plans ranged from leaflet campaigns in Germany, t

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