All the King's Men: The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster

All the King's Men: The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster by Robert Marshall. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780002177863.

The story of secret service treachery in the Second World War. It describes how the head of MI6, piqued by Chruchills setting up of SOE as a rival sabotage and intelligence organization, devised a trap, using a double agent, Henri Dericourt, to destroy the whole of SOEs intelligence network in France. As a result nearly 1,000 men and women were arrested, hundreds of whom died in concentration camps. The story of secret service treachery in the Second World War. It describes how the head of MI6, piqued by Chruchills setting up of SOE as a rival sabotage and intelligence organization, devised a trap, using a double agent, Henri Dericourt, to destroy the whole of SOEs intelligence network in France. As a result nearly 1,000 men and women were arrested, hundreds of whom died in concentration camps.