Warning, only read this book if you have good working background knowledge of WW II and a knowledge of the SOE.Stevenson's book about Vera Atkins is not the best book about Atkins. Check out A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII, which was the first book I read about Atkins and started me on my WW II reading kick.Stevenson jumps around; he jumps around too much and the book is not linear. He also is vague in places and seems not to have anything but a sense of worship for his subject. Atkins always feels like she is in the background, not the foreground. At times she seems over romanticizedI did learns some things, though. I did, however, find it interesting that Stevenson left out the fact that some of the female SOE members who were killed were raped first, at least as far as Atkins was able to determine.
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Warning, only read this book if you have good working background knowledge of WW II and a knowledge of the SOE.Stevenson's book about Vera Atkins is not the best book about Atkins. Check out A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII, which was the first book I read about Atkins and started me on my WW II reading kick.Stevenson jumps around; he jumps around too much and the book is not linear. He also is vague in places and seems not to have anything but a sense of worship for his subject. Atkins always feels like she is in the background, not the foreground. At times she seems over romanticizedI did learns some things, though. I did, however, find it interesting that Stevenson left out the fact that some of the female SOE members who were killed were raped first, at least as far as Atkins was able to determine.
