THE SECRET WAR OF SOE'S YOUNGEST AGENT AT THE HEART OF THE FRENCH
REISTANCE, TONY BROOKS, WHO BUILT A VAST RESISTANCE ORGANISATION IN
OCCUPIED FRANCE THAT DEFIED THE NAZIS FOR TWO YEARS UNTIL THE
LIBERATION. In an age when we so often take our heroes from the worlds
of sport, film, television, music, fashion, or just 'celebrity', it is
perhaps salutary to be reminded of a young man who ended the war in
command of a disparate force of some 10,000 armed resistance fighters,
and decorated with two of this country's highest awards for gallantry,
the DSO and MC. At the time, he was just twenty-three years old. This
remarkable, detailed and intimate account of a clandestine agent's
dangerous wartime career combines the historian's expert eye with the
narrative colour of remembered events. As a study in courage, it has
few, if any, equals.