Secret Agent

In June 1940, Britain and her allies were driven off the Continent by the German Army. Any hope of them fighting the Germans in Europe was lost. With the threat of invasion imminent, Britain needed to adopt a new style of warfare and the Secret Operations Executive was founded. The SOE was responsible for the co-ordination of all subversive and sabotage activity against the enemy. Winston Churchill gave them the brief: "Go, set Europe ablaze". Permitted to use any means necessary, they adopted the tactics of guerilla warfare and even cold-blooded murder. This book reveals the true story of the secret war, exploring the recruitment of new co-operatives, James Bond-style gadgets and the tortures and deaths suffered by those unable to avoid capture by the Gestapo. This is more than a war-time thriller, SECRET AGENT unearths the SOE'S genuine hidden war of occupied Europe.