A first set of blurbs for The Stay Behinds has come in; more will follow and appear here in due course.
One of Sweden’s foremost commentators on the war in Ukraine, Joakim Paasikivi, writes:
Johan Wennström’s contributions on Swedish intelligence services are groundbreaking.
— Lieutenant Colonel Joakim Paasikivi.
Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov writes:
A fascinating read about how Sweden’s secret stay-behind network prepared for a Soviet invasion that never came.
— Yaroslav Trofimov, author of Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence, finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize.
From the mirror-world of intelligence, I.S. Berry:
A comprehensive examination of a little-known pocket of history: the clandestine network poised to defend Sweden from a Soviet invasion. Incredibly researched, insightful, and illuminating, The Stay Behinds is required reading for those seeking to understand a nation's security calculations, the costs and be…
