While awaiting in-bound books (1 for the SOG library, 1 on Clandestine Radio Oprs) I found this at the gunshow down the road yesterday.
Co-authored by Brigadier C. Aubrey Dixon OBE, and Dr. Otto Heilbrunn,
1955. Picked it up for a friend but am going to read it first before shipping it out. Using recovered documents from both sides, they discuss the 2 perspectives in guerilla warfare in general, and specifically look at both sides of Russian partizans that harangued the German war machine, and German efforts to run counter-guerilla ops, down to drawings & dicta from both sides. Also, are discussions of what atypical roles other members of the guerilla force may play, though they may not be an armed member participating in direct ops.
One quote from the forward by Lieut.General Sir Reginald F.S. Denning struck me as prescient:
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Guerillas used for our own purposes behind the enemy's lines must operate under the oder of the Commander-in-Chief of the Field. If this is not done, it is possible that their action will not contribute towards the main object, which is the defeat of the enemy's armed forces in the field; in fact it may impede the attainment of this object. .... It is only the Commander-in-Chief in the Field who can decide the guerilla action which will help him to attain his object.
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Somehow, I think Sir Reginald wasn't thinking of an unconventional force being micro-managed from 8,000 miles away...
Anyway, was a nice score for less than a McD's meal.
