But Mr. Macintyre also writes, for instance, about how Sergeyev, who blamed the British for the loss of her beloved dog, Babs, could have sabotaged the war effort by the way she used dashes in secret communiqués.
Matthew d'Ancona in the Sunday Telegraph described how "in the eyes of exasperated Blairites - the BBC whinged and whined, and did its best to sabotage the war effort".
And he denounces "sabotage" of his war effort within his own government.
And some historians "believe [German intelligence chief Alexis] von Roenne was deliberately sabotaging the German war effort from within".
He hated Hitler and seemed to have done everything in his power to sabotage the Nazi war effort.
Despite this, the SOE duly sent regular packages of explosives, tools, cash and radio equipment, believing it was sabotaging the Italian war effort.
Appalled that the "bothersome little colony" has become a superpower, the villainous Lord Luxon resolves to sabotage the American War of Independence.
At Copenhagen, their behaviour was so shocking that Lumumba Di-Aping, the lead negotiator for the G77 bloc of the world's rainforest-rich but cash-poor countries, compared them to the CIA at the height of the Cold War, sabotaging whole nations.
Allied fears that the Nazis were working on an atomic bomb, inspired by their own secret programmes and by warnings from Albert Einstein, turned into one of the greatest challenges ever faced by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in its efforts to sabotage the German war effort.
During the Civil War, Confederate troops sabotaged lighthouses.
