Agent ZigZag

I finished this book last night on the British double-agent, code named ZigZag, during World War II. I picked it up after reading this review in the New York Times. The book was also chosen as one of their non-fiction notable books from 2007. Here's Another article about ZigZag from the NYT. I highly recommend it. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of Chapter three on the paucity of black and white during war:

All Wars - But this war in particular- tend to be seen in monochrome: good and evil, winner and loser, champion and coward, loyalist and traitor. For most people, the reality of war is not like that, but rather a monotonous gray of discomforts and compromises, with occasional flashes of violent color. War is too messy to produce easy heroes and villains; there are always brave people on the wrong side, and evil men among the victors, and a mass of perfectly ordinary people struggling to survive and understand in between. Away from the battlefields, war forces individuals to make impossible choices in circumstances they did not create, and could never have expected. Most accommodate, some collaborate, and a very few find and internal compass they never knew they had, pointing the the right path.