Shanghai on the Metro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars

Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, and con men—they all play a part in Michael B. Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, Shanghai on the Métro shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literature emerged between the two world wars, reflecting the atmosphere and concerns of these years.

Miller argues that French fascination with intrigue between the wars reveals a far more assured and...