My Secret Mission

Sidney Allinson is a Victoria-based communications consultant, Canadian
news correspondent for Britain’s The Army Quarterly and Defence, and
the author of Military Archives: International Directory of Military
Publications and The Bantams: The Untold St

My Secret Mission is the memoir of a Canadian who served with Special
Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Hungarian-born Andrew
Durovecz volunteered for service with SOE in 1942, trained at the
top-secret Camp X at Ajax, Ontario, and later parachuted into his
homeland. He was captured and tortured, but escaped to fight alongside
the Russians in the last weeks of the war. Durovecz and 22 other
Hungarian-Canadians of the same left-wing convictions brought a
passionate anti-Nazi zeal to their service, keen to get into the fight
to liberate Hungary and then to help re-create it as a Soviet state.

Displaying impressive recall, the author describes people and events,
political intrigues, combat scenes, and even the names of his torturers.
Relentlessly anti-American, he accuses Raoul Wallenberg of having been a
covert Nazi agent and conspirator with the forerunner of the CIA.
Durovecz moves back to stronger ground when describing the fighting in
Budapest between Russian troops and the SS. These specific details of
little-known aspects of the secret war in Eastern Europe give his book
historical value beyond its interest as a personal memoir.