cover image Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War Against Hitler

Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War Against Hitler

David Stafford. Overlook Press, $29.95 (254pp) ISBN 978-1-58567-168-7

With James Bondesque devices, disguise and sabotage, secret agents became Britain's weapon against Germany after Britain's troops were forced off the continent. In Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive's Covert War Against Hitler, British wartime intelligence operations expert David Stafford (Churchill and the Secret Service, etc.) gives a thorough history of the British government's subversions of German incursions. The book, which includes a map and 38 b&w photographs, accompanies a BBC documentary produced last spring. (Oct.)