is specialized in the study of war, intelligence and resistance. He is currently a research fello... more is specialized in the study of war, intelligence and resistance. He is currently a research fellow at Oxford's unit for the History of Medicine, where he is engaged in a major study of psychology and clandestine warfare during the Second World War. He also has personal experience with modern conflict, since he has served in the British Army in Afghanistan and worked as an election observer in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Africa. His debut book was "The Wildest Province" about "cloak-and-dagger warfare" in the Nazi-occupied Balkans. Bailey was appointed by the Prime Minister in 2012 to write the official history of SOE and their secret war on Mussolini's Italy, which will be published in 2014. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was founded during World War II under the authority of the Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton. Britain was dominated by the Axis forces in 1940, so the SOE had function of organizing military action behind enemy lines. The idea was an unconventional, new type of warfare including sabotage and subversion. In detail the organization tried to set up a secret network in occupied Europe by recruiting local civilians for resistance against the invaders of their own countries. The SOE was subdivided in three different organizations: SO 1 was charged with propaganda, SO 2 functioned as the active operating section and SO 3 was assigned with planning and tactics. This special unit liaised closely with the MI 6, the War Office, the Foreign Office, and the Ministry of Information. In summer 1941 SO 1 got transferred into the Political Warfare Executive where it became a planning and operations organization until the end of the Second World War, in 1946. After World War II had ended the SOE had done its service in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and South Asia. In November 1940, when the Battle of Britain had begun and German bombs were dropped on London, two headquarters of the SOE got installed in civilian flats in Baker Street (Hence, the "Baker Street Irregulars"). The recruitment and training for the potential group members started at the same time. According to Dr. Bailey there was no systemized selection done, which means that women and men who seemed to be suitable for SOE's business where chosen by the staff because of known identity. The agents got interviewed and assessed in secret without having an idea what for. If they passed they had to do their training in several different places in the UK for example were fitness, survival, weapons and sabotage taught in Arisaig boats and sailing were practiced on the Helford
is specialized in the study of war, intelligence and resistance. He is currently a research fello... more is specialized in the study of war, intelligence and resistance. He is currently a research fellow at Oxford's unit for the History of Medicine, where he is engaged in a major study of psychology and clandestine warfare during the Second World War. He also has personal experience with modern conflict, since he has served in the British Army in Afghanistan and worked as an election observer in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Africa. His debut book was "The Wildest Province" about "cloak-and-dagger warfare" in the Nazi-occupied Balkans. Bailey was appointed by the Prime Minister in 2012 to write the official history of SOE and their secret war on Mussolini's Italy, which will be published in 2014. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was founded during World War II under the authority of the Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton. Britain was dominated by the Axis forces in 1940, so the SOE had function of organizing military action behind enemy lines. The idea was an unconventional, new type of warfare including sabotage and subversion. In detail the organization tried to set up a secret network in occupied Europe by recruiting local civilians for resistance against the invaders of their own countries. The SOE was subdivided in three different organizations: SO 1 was charged with propaganda, SO 2 functioned as the active operating section and SO 3 was assigned with planning and tactics. This special unit liaised closely with the MI 6, the War Office, the Foreign Office, and the Ministry of Information. In summer 1941 SO 1 got transferred into the Political Warfare Executive where it became a planning and operations organization until the end of the Second World War, in 1946. After World War II had ended the SOE had done its service in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and South Asia. In November 1940, when the Battle of Britain had begun and German bombs were dropped on London, two headquarters of the SOE got installed in civilian flats in Baker Street (Hence, the "Baker Street Irregulars"). The recruitment and training for the potential group members started at the same time. According to Dr. Bailey there was no systemized selection done, which means that women and men who seemed to be suitable for SOE's business where chosen by the staff because of known identity. The agents got interviewed and assessed in secret without having an idea what for. If they passed they had to do their training in several different places in the UK for example were fitness, survival, weapons and sabotage taught in Arisaig boats and sailing were practiced on the Helford
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