Covert Radio Agents, 1939-1945: Signals From Behind Enemy Lines

"...a treasure of a book, part narrative, part tutorial and throughout, an authentic adventure saga. Ultimately, it is a very human story generously seasoned with ingenuity, technology and hardy individualism." —K9YA Telegraph

Clandestine radio operators had one of the most dangerous jobs of World War 2. Those in Nazi—occupied Europe for the SOE, MI6 and the OSS had a life—expectancy of just six weeks. In the Gilbert Islands the Japanese decapitated 17 New Zealand ‘Coastwatchers’.

These ‘behi...