The outbreak of war saw criminals exploiting the emergency conditions and those with a previously unblemished reputation tempted into crime. Penny Legg shows how and why crime was committed during the Second World War and what became of those Spivs, Scoundrels, Rogues and Worse who strayed into the ...

The outbreak of war saw criminals exploiting the emergency conditions and those with a previously unblemished reputation tempted into crime. Penny Legg shows how and why crime was committed during the Second World War and what became of those Spivs, Scoundrels, Rogues and Worse who strayed into the underworld.