Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton

 

A really clever title for a moderately interesting book. Spends a lot of time talking about the building of the infrastructure of training and materiel that had to happen to make the sabateurs and guerillas the book's about, before paying that off with recountings of some of their greatest hits. Sabateurs can do stuff that matters. Because things are happening in an order, there's more structure here than in some other pop-history-type books, but there's still a lot in the way of not names and information that don't always have obvious connections; the "what became of these people after the war" epilogue might not have been the best choice, though it did allow for a couple of elegiac moments.