Download or read book No Small Achievement written by Knud J. V. Jespersen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British formed the Special Operations Executive in 1940 to encourage and support saboteurs in German occupied territories during World War II. Jesperson (history, U. of Southern Denmark), basing his work on recently available Danish documents, gives an account of the operations of the SOE in Denmark. He describes an effort that was fairly ineffective in the early years and was only able to develop a concerted resistance campaign in the final years of the war. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR