” IT WAS a long time coming, but when it came it was all that I said it would be. As long ago as August 6 last year in XV to Follow, of THE VIRUS HOUSE by David Irving (50s, Kimber, Jan 30), I said, ‘The only reason, I suspect, that it isn’t possible to announce serial rights being brought in this staggeringly sensational war book is that the typescript is still with the Authorities. But depend on it, some circulation-seeking sheet will pounce, when the time comes. . .

A rare behind the scenes story, this, bristling with details of intrigue and (on the part of the SOE) much bravery. Author Irving, one of the world’s great investigators when it comes to undercover matters, has written the autumn’s most revealing war book beyond all doubt.'”Last Sunday, without any reader-baiting announcement, The Sunday Telegraph started