Operation Chaos tells the real life thrilling story of a group of U.S. military deserters who found asylum in Sweden during the Vietnam War, one of the great untold tales of the Cold War, where the facts are wilder than any work of fiction.
Matthew Sweet is a writer and broadcaster with a doctorate in Wilkie Collins. He presents Night Waves and Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 and The Philosopher's Arms and The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema - which he adapted as a film for BBC Four. He has also edited and introduced the work of Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Very well-informed and effortlessly funny.
*Independent*
Matthew Sweet's curiosity and sense of fun pulls back the heavy
baize curtains on what we thought we knew about the war.
*Linda Grant*
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