Well illustrated and a useful overview of SOE, although I could not but feel it was a little lightweight - perhaps that's unkind, given the book has only 64 pages. All too common a criticism of Shire books is the indexing but, unlike many in the Share Library, at least this has an index, albeit not a good one; the very first entry in the index is mis-spelled: Atlee, Clement - the Prime Minister was Attlee, of course. Individual officers named are not given ranks in the index and key words and phrases like Collaborator, Commando, Forgery, Kidnap, Signals Directorate, Wireless Station and 'Set Europe Ablaze' do not appear in the index at all - nor does Yolande Beekman, Billy Moss (W Stanley Moss) or T E Lawrence. It's disappointing that the list of Further Reading does not include 'Ill Met by Moonlight' and there is a half-page that is blank that could have listed a few of the films (such as Odette (1950), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) and The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)) and TV documentaries such as those based on work by Ben Macintyre. ( )