Bidspirit auction | Operation Jupiter SOE'S Secret War

Operation Jupiter SOE'S Secret War in Norway by Dorothy Baden-Powell, first published 1982. The book offers an insider's look into the espionage, sabotage, and resistance efforts in occupied Norway during World War II. Background of the author: Dorothy Baden-Powell was a British secret agent recruited into the Scandinavian section of the Special Operations Executive in July 1940. Having a Norwegian grandfather, she was fluent in the language, which uniquely qualified her to train, brief, and debrief Norwegian saboteurs dispatched from England and Scotland. ”Operation Jupiter” was the historical code name for a proposed, large-scale Allied invasion of northern Norway and Finland. Vigorously championed by Sir Winston Churchill to protect Arctic convoys, the invasion plan was ultimately opposed by senior commanders and abandoned in favour of the Normandy landings.Milorg alliance: The book details the highly dangerous coordination between the British SOE and Milorg (the Norwegian military resistance movement).First-hand accounts: The narrative blends official wartime archive records with raw, first-hand accounts from agents. It highlights the intense peril of sea and air insertions, the constant threat of Gestapo torture, and the brutal reprisals executed against local civilian populations. Only one copy on Abebooks, priced at £48.