British Special Operations in the Second World War: By Stealth and Guile

Daring wartime special operations fire the imagination. Stories of secret missions behind enemy lines are the stuff of legends. This is especially true of the many remarkable operations undertaken by British special forces during the Second World War, and these are the subject of Malcolm Atkin’s gripping and thought-provoking study. As well as describing the operations themselves in graphic detail, he sets them within their strategic context and looks at how they developed out of the innova...