David Lampe
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Novelists, historians, and theorists have often toyed with the question: what would have happened if the Germans had occupied Britain in 1940? Based on years of persistent detective work, The Last Ditch investigates the German plans and the countermeasures undertaken through the specially formed British Resistance Organization. The very existence of this Resistance movement remained a secret for more than two decades until the silence was finally...
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A HISTORY OF FIVE YEARS OF SECRET WARFARE AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATIONStudents were the first to resistEntire cities went on strikeAll the Danish population worked to save their Jewish countrymenV-2 component factories were destroyed in pitched battlesGeneral Montgomery described the Danish Resistance as "second to none." By the end of the war, illegal newspapers had published a total of about 26 million issues; radio guides for Allied aircraft had...