- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd; First BCA Edition edition (24 May 1979)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0370300866
- ISBN-13: 978-0370300863
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 185,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Many famous escapes from Nazi-occupied Europe were made possible by a hitherto secret British service MI 9. This small, dedicated and endlessly inventive team constantly exchanged coded letters with prisoner-of-war camps. It sent in money, maps, clothes, compasses, hacksaws; the prisoners sent out invaluable news of what was going on in the enemy's homeland. This book tells the full inside story of MI 9 for the first time.
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I can't give a detailed review of this book for two reasons. Firstly, it's been a while since I attempted to read it, and had more or less forgotten about it until I came across it here on Amazon while doing a search for something else. Secondly, I only read a bit of it before giving it to a charity shop, for reasons that will become apparent below.
I am a great fan of books dealing with clandestine operation in WWII, but this one was so badly written - there are only so many times you can re-read a sentence to try and make sense of it - and so inappropriately judgemental in some of its comments about the conduct of the war, that I simply couldn't bear it for more than a few pages.
There are some truly magnificent books about covert ops in WWII out there - "Agent Zigzag", "Eastern Approaches", "Secret Agent(SOE)" and "The Wildest Province", to name but an illustrious few - but this abortion isn't one of them. The poor quality of this book on every level imaginable beggars belief. Read almost anything else on the subject, but avoid this one like the plague.
I am a great fan of books dealing with clandestine operation in WWII, but this one was so badly written - there are only so many times you can re-read a sentence to try and make sense of it - and so inappropriately judgemental in some of its comments about the conduct of the war, that I simply couldn't bear it for more than a few pages.
There are some truly magnificent books about covert ops in WWII out there - "Agent Zigzag", "Eastern Approaches", "Secret Agent(SOE)" and "The Wildest Province", to name but an illustrious few - but this abortion isn't one of them. The poor quality of this book on every level imaginable beggars belief. Read almost anything else on the subject, but avoid this one like the plague.
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