"World War II Secret Operations Handbook" explores the skills and tricks used by the British Special Operations Executive, the US Office of Strategic Services,

During World War II, training in the black arts of covert operation was vital preparation for the 'ungentlemanly warfare' waged by the Special Operations Execut

In the foreword to this book, first published in 1978, Sen. Daniel Inouye describes the story as ""the raw material of adventure fiction--but this is all true a

British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although specia