The Secret History of SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940– 1945. By William Mackenzie. Foreword and notes by M. R. D. Foot. Published by St. Ermin’s Press, London, 2000. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 814pp. with illustrations, maps, tables and appendices. Burgundy cloth with black endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition with light toning; dustjacket has very light shelf edge wear.
At the end of World War II, Britain’s Cabinet Office commissioned an eminent academic, Professor William Mackenzie, to undertake a comprehensive secret history of Special Operations Executive. Given access to both personnel and surviving wartime files, Mackenzie’s report was be used by intelligence agencies in a future conflict, its audience the very elite of Whitehall insiders. Now, for the first time, this highly classified document has been made available.
