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"During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in 'targeted killing' - the assassination of enemy political and military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping its agents with tools for use behind enemy lines, such as folding motorbikes, miniature submarines and suicide pills disguised as coat buttons. But its activities are now also gaining attention as a forerunner to today's 'extra-legal' killings of wartime enemies in foreign territory, for example through the use of unmanned drones. Adam Leong's work evaluates the effectiveness of political assassination in wartime using four examples: Heydrich's assassination in Prague (Operation Anthropoid); the daring kidnap of Major General Kreipe in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor; the failed attempt to assassinate Rommel, known as Operation Flipper; and the American assassination of General Yamamoto."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Secret service. --- World War, 1939-1945. --- Operation Anthropoid, 1942. --- Operation Vengeance, 1943. --- Operation Flipper, 1941. --- Kidnapping. --- Abduction of children --- Child abduction --- Child snatching --- Kidnaping --- Offenses against the person --- Flipper, Operation, 1941 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Vengeance, Operation, 1943 --- Anthropoid, Operation, 1942 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Secret police (Secret service) --- Police --- Detectives --- Intelligence service --- Spies --- Campaigns --- Kreipe, Karl. --- Kreipe, Heinrich, --- Assassination --- European history. --- Political aspects. --- Political murder --- Murder --- Political crimes and offenses --- Political violence

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The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend Sailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captive's perspective as from the American's. Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a "cannibal" in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the east coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the South Pacific-the captain hoping to establish trade with Dako's assistance, and Dako seizing his chance to return home with the only person who knew where his island was. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell's ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako's life, and the two men's infusion into American literature-as Melville's Queequeg, for example, and in Poe's Pym. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.

First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Indigenous peoples --- Kidnapping --- Ship captains --- Sideshows --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. --- Side shows --- Amusements --- Captains of ships --- Masters of ships --- Sea captains --- Shipmasters --- Ships --- Ships' captains --- Merchant marine --- Abduction of children --- Child abduction --- Child snatching --- Kidnaping --- Offenses against the person --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Aboriginal peoples' first contact with Westerners --- Contact, First, of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Westerners, First contact of aboriginal peoples with --- Discoveries in geography --- History --- Officers --- Morrell, Benjamin, --- Dako. --- Morrell, --- Travel --- Papua New Guinea --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua-Neuguinea --- Papua Niu Gini --- Papua Niugini --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papua Nugini --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua --- Description and travel. --- Discovery and exploration. --- Anthropology --- Contact, First (Anthropology) --- Cultural contact --- Interethnic contact --- First contact (Anthropology)