The Irregulars
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by Jennet Conant
Roald Dahl was only 25 when he arrived in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1942, wounded and disappointed. He had fought fierce battles in the Royal Air Force, of whom Winston Churchill had said, “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed to so few.” Grounded with a head injury and reassigned as a “whiskey warrior” with the British Embassy, Dahl considered himself demoted. He regarded the job with disdain and managed …
