Secret agent's handbook
Subtitle: [the top secret manual of wartime weapons, gadgets, disguises and devices]
By: introduction by Roderick Bailey
Contributors: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher: Max Press; Little Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781906251192
Subjects: Weapons; Equipment and supplies; Secret service; Catalogs; World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain. Special Operations Executive; Great Britain; Espionage; History
Other titles: Secret agent's handbook of special devices.
Description: Facsimile reprint of pages from two volumes of a catalogue compiled for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), issued in 1944 and 1945.
Notes: Subtitle from jacket.

Originally published as: Secret agent's handbook of special devices. Richmond: Public Record Office, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. Incendiary stores ; Prepared charges and ancillaries ; Initiating, delay action and booby trap mechanisms ; Tools and ancillary equipment ; Sundries ; Arms and equipment ; "Ad hoc" devices ; Under water equipment ; Medical drugs and food ; Man and supplies dropping equipment ; Special list; title: Volume II. Wireless section ; Small boat section ; Camouflage section.