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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time’ statement in 1938 referring to the Munich Agreement with Hitler he may not have been aware that a new section of the Secret Intelligence Service Section D was already making plans to mount a political and sabotage war against Nazi Germany. This was a new form of warfare encompassing bribery black propaganda and sabotage by agents described by Military Intelligence as having no morals or scruples. It disregarded the conventions of neutrality and was prepared to hit the Nazi state wherever it could do most damage and it is only now after the release of hitherto secret documents that its remarkable story can be told. Malcolm Atkin reveals how a scientific section was established to develop new types of weapons and membership was extended beyond the traditional public-school ‘old boy network’ of British intelligence to work with German and Austrian resistance groups – socialists trade unionists Catholics and Jews. Section D’s plans ranged from leaflet campaigns in Germany the sabotage of railways factories and ports through to plans to block the River Danube by blowing up a mountain and an attempt to introduce foot and mouth disease into German cattle herds. Some aspects of the story are reminiscent of a Childers or Buchan novel – but they are true! (SP)