As the 18 men clambered out of a truck, they were properly bewildered. They didn't know exactly where they were, or why. They only knew that they had volunteered for "dangerous and hazardous" duty. They did not know that some of them would soon be guerrilla leaders in the Burma jungles, social scientists in London, bridge dynamiters or underground agents in some enemy-occupied city. This comfortable country estate, some 40 minutes out of Washington in the gently rolling Virginia hills, did not look hazardous. The 18 men did not know that it was...
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