{"product_id":"2940169051650","title":"Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat","description":"\u003cp\u003eSix gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through  spectacular acts of sabotage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe guerrilla campaign that  followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it.  One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the  1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more  devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's  favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly  pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in  silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind  enemy lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these menamp;mdash;along with  three othersamp;mdash;formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of  formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a  cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his  Ministry  of Ungentlemanly Warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiles Milton's \u003ci\u003eChurchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping and  vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the  last great untold story of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100406104304,"sku":"2940169051650","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169051650_p0.jpg?v=1763670308","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169051650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}