Four and a Half Miles Around a Secret War
A day on foot around the small circle of London streets where Britain stood up the Special Operations Executive and learned, room by room, how to fight a secret war.
The Author, in front of the door at the foot of the horseshoe staircase at St. Ermin’s. MI6 officers from 54 Broadway came and went through it during the war. Violette Szabo and the other F Section agents used this staircase
The Works Canteen
Day 2 in London. The neighborhood where modern special operations were invented, and the people who were used up to make them.
The bar I am sitting in tonight was once a front.
