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Target: Italy by Roderick Bailey details the unknown story of the cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini's Italy in the Second World War.

About the Author

Roderick Bailey is a historian at the University of Oxford and a specialist in the study of resistance and clandestine warfare. His first book, The Wildest Province, based on his PhD, was an acclaimed account of SOE exploits in the Axis-occupied Balkans. In 2012 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to write the official history of SOE's war on Fascist Italy. A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, he has also served in Afghanistan with the British Army.