Off Topic: Brief Book Review

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(04-25-2022 07:56 PM)BruceH Wrote:  Also, quoting from another site:

Quote:There's a lot of interesting background to this in the book Most Secret War by Dr R. V. Jones who was head of scientific intelligence during the war.
At one point Jones himself was under consideration to join the Bruneval raid as the technical expert. It was his lofty position that first caused the order to be issued about being shot by his own side if in danger of being captured. Of course, he didn't go on the raid but Jones maintained that because the order had been part of the operational planning the inertia of typical British military planners meant that the order was transferred to Cox for Bruneval and then became SOP for Dieppe and Nissenthal, despite it probably not being necessary

(* cough *) Military (* cough *) Intelligence

There was a spot in Literary Review in which a former member of the British Armed Services (not picking on them in particular) said his blood would always run cold when he heard the phrase "went off like a military operation"