Undercover Agent How one of SOE’s youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

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.

Mark Seaman, MBE, is an historian with the Cabinet Office in London, and before that with the Imperial War Museum. He has studied SOE and the French Resistance for nearly forty years. Given his close association with many SOE veterans over the years, and his extensive knowledge of secret archives in Britain and abroad, he holds an unrivalled expertise in his subject. A long-time friend of Tony Brooks, Mark inherited all his unpublished papers on the former SOE agent's death, and recorded his wartime experiences first hand. He is the author of Bravest of the Brave, the official biography of 'To