Intelligence gathering in German-occupied Belgium during both wars has been disregarded in the main, but Helen Fry maintains the impact of such efforts were highly significant.
It seems to me that the great detectives of the interwar years were a cultural discussion about the skill sets and sorrows that intelligence work in the wars gave to those who were involved with it. Hercule Poirot comes to mind first, but also Nero Wolfe, and Miss Marple.
Then of course the entire detective and spy thriller genre of the Cold War talked about how intelligence work had permeated all of society - nobody really was left out.
It seems to me that the great detectives of the interwar years were a cultural discussion about the skill sets and sorrows that intelligence work in the wars gave to those who were involved with it. Hercule Poirot comes to mind first, but also Nero Wolfe, and Miss Marple.
Then of course the entire detective and spy thriller genre of the Cold War talked about how intelligence work had permeated all of society - nobody really was left out.
So many brave men and women, working in the shadows, and whose names we will never know.
The same might easily and justifiably be said about those currently working in the field.