ABSTRACT
Ronald Seth's health had been badly affected by his wartime experiences, and after the war he set to work as a writer and produced a large number of books on subjects ranging from the occult to espionage including the excellent Anatomy of Spying. The uncertainty of who should and who should not be regarded as a traitor is well exemplified by the wartime career of Seth. Before the Second World War, Seth was an academic working at the University of Tallinn. He returned to Britain and served for a while in the Royal Air Force as an Intelligence Officer before being transferred to the Special Operation Executive in 1941. As Seth himself tells the story, he was to die by hanging but on the cold December day when the execution was due to take place, for some reason the trap did not work. Seth suggests that the mechanism had been interfered with by partisans.
