Churchill’s Secret Agent. Josephine Butler. Codename ‘Jay Bee’.
BUTLER, Josephine
WITH A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR
Published: Blaketon-Hall [Ashburton], [1983]
Stock code: 51838
Price: £98.00
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
WITH A.L. s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED. The author was working as a researcher for Theatre Intelligence Service when she was recruited by Churchill as the only woman member of his 'Secret Circle', whose existence was unknown even by the War Office and MI5. None of the twelve members ever knew the identity of the others. Given that Butler was dropped into occupied territory more than fifty times, her survival alone is extraordinary enough.