SOE

This is a history of the Special Operations Executive, the British organization created in 1940 to conduct sabotage, liaison, and resistance support in occupied Europe and beyond. Foot, drawing on official papers, describes recruitment, training, radio, and the country sections that ran agents into France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, the Balkans, and elsewhere. He treats successes, failures, German penetration, and relations with SIS and Allied services as parts of one wartime instrument. The book is an institutional history of clandestine work, not a novel of any single circuit and not a manual of tradecraft.

Bound in grey cloth, cover blocked with a design in black, silver and red. Black slipcase.