Pitt, Roxane, — THE COURAGE OF FEAR.

Jarrolds, London, 1957, 1st edn., xii, 242pp, half tone frontis portrait, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper by 'Chadwick', memoirs of an unconventional woman and described as 'one of the most resourceful British secret service agents in the last war', the daughter of a trader with connections throughout Europe and the East, multilingual and brought up in a cosmopolitan society she relates working for British intelligence in France and Italy during WW2, an account full of inconstancies which are further confused by her subsequent publication 'Operation Double Life', which gives a different account of her experiences, this title is included in Nigel West's book 'Counterfeit Spies' about books of doubtful veracity, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned and light bump lower edge of text block, dustwrapper rubbed at extrems., loss to head of spine and cnrs. and large chip to upper edge of lower panel, repaired to reverse, very good in a poor dustwrapper,