- Published: 31 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781446499542
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
The Wildest Province
SOE in the Land of the Eagle
- Published: 31 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781446499542
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
[Bailey's] accomplished account makes grim reading
Max Hastings, Sunday Times
A tremendous work of scholarship
Daily Telegraph
A tribute to average men with the guts to be extraordinary... The author's research is monumental
Sunday Express
An admirable work of erudition
Scotland on Sunday
Authoritative... More than a decade's study and an impressive range of archival and oral sources has allowed him to weave a complex but engrossing story
Times Literary Supplement
Beautifully written and impeccably researched... a compelling work and by far the most comprehensive yet undertaken on the subject...The Wildest Province is a must-have acquisition for anyone remotely interested in the region, the war, its politics or the experiences of the men who fought there. I devoured the book quickly
The Times
Reminiscent of John Buchan and The Thirty-Nine Steps... Extreme stuff
Daily Mail
Thanks to the excellent investigative work of Roderick Bailey we now have this gripping account of the British soldiers who fought with the partisans in occupied Albania... tells in pacy details the considerable hardships in their struggle to survive... this is an unknown but important chapter in war history, which has now found a fine chronicler'
Denis MacShane (Minister for the Balkans 2001-2005), Financial Times
This is a gripping account of two wars...a rich and rounded account...he has mastered a mass of complex material, and analysed it with great clarity and fairness...it is hard to imagine the task being done better than this... History more breathtaking than any thriller
Sunday Telegraph
What makes Bailey's book so readable is not only his grasp of strategy but his hold on tactics and personalities.... The Wildest Province...establishes him as a modern historian of great skill... Anyone interested in human nature under stress, or problems of counter-insurgency, or sheer adventure, will read it with profit
Literary Review