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{"title":"Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement <b>Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement</b> , by George Peden, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 418 pp., £29.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978100920198","authors":"Peter Neville","doi":"10.1080/09592296.2023.2270321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2023.2270321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44804,"journal":{"name":"Diplomacy & Statecraft","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135948510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Behind All This façade’. The Special Operations Executive in Greece in the Light of New Documents","authors":"Tommaso Piffer","doi":"10.1080/09592296.2023.2270322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2023.2270322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article discusses the activities of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Greece during World War II, re-evaluating the stormy relationship between SOE and the Foreign Office (FO) in the light of previously unused SOE records. Although standard accounts of SOE in Greece blame the Foreign Office for its inability to understand the situation and, indirectly, for the outbreak of the Civil War in December 1944, this article argues that both SOE and the Foreign Office were out of touch with what was happening in occupied Greece. It also argues that between September 1942 and the Spring of 1943, SOE intentionally acted behind the back of the Foreign Office, deeply entangling itself in the Greek resistance movement without any real awareness of the political situation in the country. For intelligence studies, this story provides a unique insight into the British approach to the political complexities of occupied Europe during World War II. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. This article is a free-standing piece, which is based but does not overlap with my forthcoming book, ‘The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance. Intelligence, Politics, and the Origins of the Cold War. 1939 –1945’ (Oxford UP, January 2024).2. War Cabinet Home Defense (Security) Executive. Special Operations Executive, 19 July 1941, published in W. Mackenzie, The Secret History of SOE: Special Operations Executive 1940–1945 (London, 2000), 753–55.3. Ibid., 346. See also N. Wylie, “Ungentlemanly Warriors or Unreliable Diplomats? Special Operations Executive and ‘Irregular Political Activities’ in Europe,” Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 1 (2005).4. Memorandum. Relations between SOE and the Foreign Office, published in Mackenzie, The Secret History of SOE, 759–62.5. D. Stafford, Britain and European Resistance, 1940–1945: a Survey of the Special Operations Executive, with Documents (London, 1980), 78.6. C. Goulter‐Zervoudakis, “The Politicization of Intelligence: The British Experience in Greece, 1941–1944,” Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 1 (1998): 165–194, R. Clogg, ‘’Pearls from Swine’: the Foreign Office Papers, SOE and the Greek Resistance’, in R. Clogg (ed.) Anglo-Greek Attitudes: Studies in history (London 2000), 78–107 and Clogg, ‘The Special Operations Executive in Greece’, 6–77.7. E.C.W. Myers, Greek Entanglement (London, 1985), C.M. Woodhouse, Apple of Discord. A Survey of Recent Greek Politics in their International Setting (Reston, VA 1985) and C.M. Woodhouse, The Struggle for Greece, 1941–1949 (Chicago 2003). For a critical review of memoirs of British SOE agents in Greece see O. Smith, ‘The Memoirs and Reports of The British Liaison Officers in Greece, 1942–1944: Problems of Source Value’, Journal of Hellenic Diaspora, 11 (1984): 9–33.8. Clogg, “The Special Operations Executive in Greece,” 61.9. Ibid., 77.10. On this, reference can be made to R. Frazier, Anglo-Am","PeriodicalId":44804,"journal":{"name":"Diplomacy & Statecraft","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135948511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}