Undercover Agent
- Tony Brooks was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE)
- The wartime secret service established by Churchill to "set Europe ablaze
- " After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942
- Among the first (and youngest) British agents sent to support the nascent French Resistance
- Brook's success was primarily due to his exceptional qualities as a secret agent
- Although he was aided by large and frequent slices of luck
- Among much else
- He survived brushes with a British traitor and a notorious double agent
- The Gestapo's capture of his wireless operator and subsequent attempts to trap Brooks
- Brief incarceration in a Spanish concentration camp
