<p>During the Second World War, Sydney Wigginton ("Wig") was a senior officer in Britain's irregular warfare unit, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). This is his previously untold story. Wig was an orphan but, thanks to an unknown benefactor, he received a decent education. After a career in public transport logistics, in 1939 he joined up. After obtaining a commission, and active service with the 8 th Army in North Africa, in late 1942 he joined SOE's Cairo office where he established the air operations unit. He was soon responsible for deploying missions to support the resistance across the Axis occupied Balkans. Later, he moved to southern Italy from where the scope of his role extended to the whole of south and Eastern Europe. In the final year of his life, as an acknowledged air operations expert, he was deployed to the Far East where he provided support to the resistance as they made a major contribution to the Allied liberation of Burma. In September 1945, Wig went on one last mission. On his way back, his plane crashed in the Burmese jungle. Two months later, his second son was born and was raised to think that he shouldn't miss what he never had. 65 years pass and the same son, who has lived in blissful ignorance of his father, finds an old tin box belonging to his recently deceased mother containing papers from the 1940s. On investigation, he is drawn into a world of which he knew nothing. This book tells the story not only of the life and death of his father, but the intriguing world of irregular warfare during World War Two. For the author, it is also an account of personal discovery.</p>

Wig's Secret War: The Biography of an SOE Air Operations Manager

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