Setting the Med Ablaze: Churchill's secret North African base

By Peter Dixon

Who is to be trusted less - your enemy or your ally?
If you like finding out what really happened in the secret Second World War, you will enjoy Setting the Med Ablaze.
In the tradition of Ben MacIntyre and Antony Beevor, it tells the story of the secret Mediterranean base called Massingham. Americans, Brits, French, Italians and Spaniards operated undercover together to defeat Hitler. The subversion and sabotage they spearheaded was crucial to undermining Fascist power in Italy, France and the Mediterranean.
It wasn't easy. Often, they mistrusted each other as much as their common foe.
But it worked. The men and women of Massingham found the courage to rise above the political differences of their capitals. The lives of brave agents were in their hands: parachuting on to a moonlit field, rowing from a silent submarine to a blacked-out beach or transmitting from a clandestine radio.
Discover Massingham's role in Italy's surrender, the conquest of the Mediterranean islands and 'the other D-Day' in Southern France