After the defeat of the French Army Churchill created a top-secret espionage operation. Special Operations Executive, and the SOE remained below the radar until the end of World War II. Of the many brave men and women conscripted, two Anglo-American recruits, the Starr brothers, stood out to become legendary figures to the guerillas, assassins, and saboteurs they led. Written with complete and unrivalled access to recently declassified documents, family letters, diaries, and court records, along with interviews from surviving Resistance fighters, They Fought Alone is a real-life thriller.

Author Biography

Charles Glass was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News from 1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. His writings appear in Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Independent, and The Spectator. He is the author of Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, Money for Old Rope, The Northern Front, Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, and The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II.