Grand Prix drivers who were trained up to become top secret agents to battle the Nazis in the second world war? It sounds like a cheap piece of paperback fiction, but this fascinating book is all the more potent because it's completely true.

Three Grand Prix drivers from the 1920s and 1930s really worked for a clandestine British secret service in occupied France, coming into scrapes, daring escapes and international espionage. The product of 18 years of research, 'The Grand Prix Saboteurs' tells a story that remained top secret until the British Government finally agreed to release the files in 2003.

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