He called for a flotilla of little boats to bring the troops from the shore to the troopships standing off to sea. Winston Churchill mobilized the whole of the south-east coast of England to help bring the men home. Almost half a million men ended up on the beaches and shores of the small French town of Dunkirk. The allied lines were soon completely overrun, and a full-scale retreat was under way. In May 1940, after many months of inactivity, the Germans pushed through the Ardennes Forest into Belgium and France. While some may say it gives information to subversive groups, we also point out that this information is readily available on the internet, if you know where to look for it, and in thousands of spy and conspiracy thrillers, and in far more up-to-date methods. We make no claims that the information is original or our own writing. Some of the main criticism in previous publications was the problem with an incomplete manual. Our work was a conscious effort to publish the whole manual. It must be noted that the use of spacing was not to make the document longer, it was a conscious effort to break the information into small chunks, for the ease of the trainer’s delivery and the agent’s memorization. The regular spacing between the lines and phrases has been kept as close to the original as possible. Great care has been taken to keep the document’s original formatting. The SOE were looking for a PhD who could win a bar fight. It is worth taking time to consider that these ‘agents-under-training’ must have been of significant intelligence to take on such a rigorous course. This document is not a pamphlet the manual is over 300 pages long, and has chapters on many topics. It was the industry standard for many years. The SOE manual was a British document, subsequently used by many other countries. The English used is British English, and we make no apology for this. We do appreciate that spelling mistakes did occur in the original documents, and we have taken care to correct these. Painstaking work has been undertaken to bring you as authentic a document as we can manage. Please note, the manual was a top-secret document for many years, just recently released from the Official Secrets Act. For instance parts of the manual have already been brought up to date with the latest German losses in Russia.ĭifferent versions of the document may have been printed overseas for American and Asian trainees. The manual printed below had dates from September 1943 to January 1944. It was adapted, changed, altered, and updated on a regular basis to provide the trainee with the most recent information. From its inception, the SOE (MI-6) Training manual was always a fluid document.
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