New Copyĭoing Their Bit - J.Mills Doing Their Bit is a detailed account of the many organisations which helped to win the war on Britain’s Home Front. These Units are still effectively secret and this is the most comprehensive history published to date. Others, men and women, would remain behind above ground, to spy on the enemy and communicate intelligence to the Defence Force by a covert radio network. Instructed to 'stay-behind' underground as the enemy passed over, they were then to emerge each night to commit mayhem for as long as they could stay alive. They were hurriedly selected immediately after the Dunkirk evacuation then trained and equipped with firearms, explosives and booby-traps. One section worked as Patrols, usually consisting of half-a-dozen men in hidden underground operational bases. It was the only one in Europe prepared in advance of an enemy assault.The Auxunits were civilian 'stay-behinds'. These included a secret resistance network known as the GHQ Auxiliary Units.
Defying high-level opposition, they quietly worked instead on preemptive 'Last Ditch' survival plans. ' 'A carefully researched book on a long-neglected subject which fills a major gap in our Second World War knowledge' - Norman Longmate, author of If Britain Had Fallen British Secret Intelligence Service officers and others in the War Office were never convinced that appeasement would prevent a Nazi invasion. 1st 2008 ' Churchill's Underground Army ' by John Warwicker. Churchill's Underground Army - John Warwicker.
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