“And now go and set Europe ablaze”

— Winston S. Churchill, book The Second World War

Entry from Monday 22 July 1940, foundation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Dalton, Hugh (1986). The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton 1940-45. Jonathan Cape. p. 62. ISBN 022402065X
The Second World War (1939–1945)

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