six gentlemen one goal the destruction of hitlers war machine in the spring of 1939 a topsecret organization was founded in london its purpose was to plot the destruction of hitlers war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage the guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it one of them cecil clarke was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans now his talents were put to more devious use he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate hitlers favorite reinhard heydrich another william fairbairn was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion he was the worlds leading expert in silent killing hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines led by dapper scotsman colin gubbins these menalong with three othersformed a secret inner circle that aided by a group of formidable ladies singlehandedly changed the course second world war a cohort handpicked by winston churchill whom he called his ministry of ungentlemanly warfaregiles miltons churchills ministry of ungentlemanly warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derringdo that is also perhaps the last great untold story of the second world war