British clandestine activities in Romania during the Second World War
By: Dennis Deletant (Georgetown University, USA)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781137574510
Subjects: Subversive activities; Great Britain. MI6; Secret service; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; British Espionage; Great Britain. Special Operations Executive; Great Britain; Relations; History
Description: "British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War is the first monograph to examine the activity throughout the entire war of SOE and MI6. It was generally believed in Britain's War Office, after Hitler's occupation of Austria in March 1938, that Germany would seek to impose its will on South-East Europe before turning its attention towards Western Europe. Given Romania's geographical position, there was little Britain could offer her. The brutal fact of British-Romanian relations was that Germany was inconveniently in the way: opportunity, proximity of manufacture and the logistics of supply all told in favour of the Third Reich. This held, of course, for military as well as economic matters. In these circumstances the British concluded that their only weapon against German ambitions in countries which fell into Hitler's orbit were military subversive operations and a concomitant attempt to draw Romania out of her alliance with Germany"--From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Selective biographical roster; title: Mission accomplished : the coup of 23 August 1944; title: Setting the scene : problems of cohesion, 1918-1938; title: The drift into Germany's orbit : romania, 1938-1941; title: The prelude to hostilities : projecting Britain in Romania; title: Challenging German ambitions : clandestine British military operations in Romania, 1939-41; title: Clandestine British operations in Romania, 1942-1943; title: The "autonomous" mission; title: MI6 and Romania, 1940-1945; title: The eradication of opposition to communist rule; title: Condemned but not forgotten : the fate of pro-British activists in Romania, 1945-1964.