The Dirty Tricks Department
The Untold Story of the Real-life Q Branch, the Masterminds of Second World War Secret Warfare
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- Release Date
30 July 2026
Summary
In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him.
After a disconcerting amount of time, William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), walked in the door. ‘You know your Sherlock Holmes, of course,’ Donovan said as an introduction. ‘Pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837052875 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837052875 |
| Author: | John Lisle |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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‘The Dirty Tricks Department is a fascinating tale vividly told, full of sabotage and skulduggery, deviousness and invention, and populated by a cast of remarkable characters. James Bond meets Sherlock Holmes – but in deadly serious real life.’
– H. W. Brands, New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalists Traitor to His Class and The First AmericanAbout The Author
John Lisle
John Lisle is a history professor at Louisiana Tech University, where he teaches courses on secret warfare. His writing on the D Branch, the intelligence community, and the history of science has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Military History (forthcoming), Skeptic, The Journal of Intelligence History, and Physics in Perspective.
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