The scarlet thread
Subtitle: Adventures in Wartime Espionage
By: by Donald Downes.
Publisher: Dereck Verschoyle
Published: 1953
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service.
Description: Donald Downes was transferred to the O.S.S. when America came into the war. Then, after valuable counter-espionage work in the U.S.A., he sailed for Europe, went into the beaches at Salerno with the combat troops, and there, in Italy, pursued espionage behind the enemy lines.

Donald Downes tells an incredible story of indomitable courage and fantastic intrigues, as he and his companions fought a war of stealth and suprise; and of the disillusion he felt at seeing his country's trust friends betrayed to yesterday's enemies for the sake of politics.