Sleep at times does not come easily after reading these passages. A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm kept me glued to the page. On starting to read Flames in the Field, it quickly became apparent that the demise of the four SOE agents involved was extensively covered in Sarah Helm's book. Flames in the Field I keep picking up and putting down - is it because I already know what happened to them? I shall only know when I reach the end of the book This is an excellent book. It's a well-researched, highly readable account of 4 women SOE agents in France. Although the book is purportedly about 4 women, there is a lot of general information on the SOE, and detailed stories of many other agents who were involved with he 4 women featured in the story. There is also an account of the British secret service' controversial decision to use agents as bait during the war, sacrificing their own agents' lives and freedom to misinform the Germans. (...) She went to school with one of the agents who was killed by the Nazis and interviewed many people who knew the female agents herself. She's also the one who solved the mystery of the 4th agent, all acknowleged in Kramer's book. Rita Kramer gained a position as a well respected historian of WWII espionage with the penning of Flames In The Field. She successfully wealds a complex story of espionage activity by the Allies as well as