Dating back to 1945, there has been an urge to place the efforts to organise a British guerrilla or resistance movement within the popular appeal of the better known continental resistance movements.  At the same time, there has often been a nationalalst assumption that the British must have been the first, and best, in the field.  In itself, this continued the often arrogant attitude  of the wartime British War Office! In fact, both Czechoslovakia and Poland were the first in creating guerrilla and resistance movements before the Nazi invasion of their countries. 

 

The following pages offer case studies that place the popular impression of the  Secret Intelligence Service and War Office efforts in Britain within a broader European context.​

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