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At the centre of Timothy Snyder's Narratives of a Secret War is the fascinating espionage story of Polish artist and spy Henryk Józefski, one of Józef Piłsudski's closest associates, vice-minister of the Ukrainian government in 1920, Volyn voivode in the interwar period, and a longtime underground figure and conspirator. Snyder skilfully combines his dramatic biography with an in-depth historical study of the pro-Ukrainian political and intellectual elites of Poland in the first half of the twentieth century, the Prometheans, and their participation in the resistance to Bolshevik terror and, later, Stalinism, and in the ambitious project of liberating Soviet Ukraine. This is a fascinating and dynamic account of the competition between Polish and Soviet intelligence, and at the same time a thorough scholarly work based on hundreds of archival sources.