Description
Book SynopsisRoderick Bailey is a military historian attached to the Imperial War Museum and the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller,
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War, and the critically acclaimed
The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle. He is a graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and a former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Trade ReviewRoderick Bailey's assembly of tales deserves a warm welcome, both for readability - there is not a dull page - and for surprise: a great deal of it is unknown to [the] general public -- MRD Foot, official historian of SOE * Literary Review *
Roderick Bailey has skilfully braided their stories into a coherent narrative, and the quality of their egregious courage catches at the heart * Spectator *
a fascinating and at times gruesome and moving read, and is an ideal introduction to the whole subject of the SOE...thoroughly recommended * BBC Who Do You Think You Are Magazine *
