This is the first comprehensive account of Britain's relations with Switzerland during World War II. It explains why Britain remained apparently so impassive towards Switzerland's financial and economic collaboration with the Axis and why it did so little to try to liberalize Switzerland's restrictive refugee policy. The extent and importance of Britain's covert activities in Switzerland are exposed for the first time.

This collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) sets out to meet two discrete objectives. The first is to explore the "non-military" aspects of British "special operations" over the course of the Second World War. SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to "set Europe ablaze," as Churchill memorably put it. This was a task it was meant to achieve by detonating popular resistance against Axis rule, and nurturing "secret armies," which might be capable of providing military and other forms of assistance for British forces when they were once again able to return to...

Neville Wylie examines Britain's diplomatic efforts to safeguard its prisoners of war in Germany between 1939 and 1945.

This collection provides the most comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war for fifty years. The essays focus on how individual neutral governments perceived international developments and reveal the domestic political circumstances that critically affected their response to the course of the war. They therefore provide the political context that has been overlooked in recent controversies surrounding their humanitarian and financial activities, and offer analytical introductions to the large amount of historical writing...

This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the 'non-military' aspects of British special operations in the Second World War.

It details how SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to 'set Europe ablaze', as Churchill memorably put it. This was a task it was meant to achieve by detonating popular resistance against Axis rule, and nurturing 'secret armies', which might be capable of providing military and other forms of assistance for British forces when they were once again able to return to the offensive and conduct land...