The Double-Cross System - Folio Society edition

The Double-Cross System

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The Double-Cross System - Folio Society edition
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The Double-Cross System

J.C.Masterman

Edition year 2007
Binding Cloth
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 256
Dimensions 9.5 × 6.5 in

Edition details

The Double-Cross System In the War of 1939 to 1945 by J.C.Masterman. Introduction by M.R.D.Foot. Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson. Frontispiece and 12 pages of b&w plates. Three-quarter bound in dark blue cloth with photo printed front paper board. 256pp. 9.5x6.5in

About the book

Masterman was the top civil servant responsible for this branch of the UK's espionage network during the second world war. A memorandum on his department's achievements was required and this he wrote immediately before his retirement. Naturally it was a highly confidential document but now, many decades later, it was decided to allow publication. The reader will be very surprised to find a text that is so readable, and to learn of a story that was so important. It was Masterman's talent, however, that has turned what would normally be a dry-as-dust government paper into something akin to a thriller!

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