An Underworld at War

Donald Thomas

First Edition Published 2003

While World War II produced numerous acts of self sacrifice, it also made many people rich.  The criminal activities of the underworld that extended from the civilian population right through to the armed forces constitute one of the great untold stories of the war.  The Blitz of 1940 may have made a nation of heroes, but in the shadows the shelter gangs and looters prowled.

The author draws on extensive archive material to tell the extraordinary and frequently ludicrous story of these less-than-heroic Britons.  The facts uncovered throughout the book are often so preposterous that in a fiction novel they would seem unbelivable