Special Operations Executive Assignment

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 189pp., b/w plates, appendix, Author was seconded at the beginning of WWII to the War Office for intelligence duties. He was recruited by General Gubbins into the legendary underground Auxiliary Units and, subsequently SOE. His operational activities took him to Tunisia where he established the operational base from which the Balkan operations were organised and Sicily, as number two to Jack Churchill on Vis - the Allied-Partisan fortress from which many raids were launched against German-occupied islands along the Dalmatian coast. Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy.