{"product_id":"9781800326446-all-the-kings-men","title":"All the King's Men","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster\u003cbr\u003eRobert Marshall is a writer and producer. He spent 20 years at the BBC, ran independent production companies, pioneered live screening of the performing arts and was Executive Producer for Shakespeare’s Globe. He has returned to his native Australia and now lectures at Curtin University, and is still writing.\u003cbr\u003eThe story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.\u003cp\u003eThis is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service  SOE  at Dansey's instructions. From there began a terrifying trail of destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter making contact with Dansey in 1942, Dericourt was recruited to SOE as the man desperately needed to organize top-secret flights in and out of occupied French territory. But at the same time Dericourt was in touch with German counter-espionage in Paris. As SOE congratulated themselves on a new asset, Dericourt gave the Nazis everything; every flight, operation and coded message he could.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst a background of unprecedented deception and betrayal, Dansey's secret MI6 operation eventually led to the arrest of nearly one thousand men and women, hundreds of whom died in concentration camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow did it go so wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA shocking, enthralling account of a devastating episode in the history of the British secret services, perfect for readers of Ben MacIntyre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451595829622,"sku":"9781800326446","price":5.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36466450.jpg?v=1760463132","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800326446-all-the-kings-men","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}