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Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal / Ben MacIntyre

By:

Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Harmony Books , c2007.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xii, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780307353405

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DDC classification:

940.5486 MAC

Summary: Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with orders to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, he worked as a double agent, a British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and miraculously keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way. MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman's files, allowing the full story to be told, a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.--From publisher description.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	940.5486 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		026360

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Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, c2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-351) and index.

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with orders to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, he worked as a double agent, a British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and miraculously keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way. MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman's files, allowing the full story to be told, a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.--From publisher description.

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