Game of Spies The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

Ashdown, Paddy

ISBN 10: 0008377162 / ISBN 13: 9780008377168

Editore: William Collins, 2020

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• Titolo: Game of Spies The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944
• Editore: William Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0008377162
• ISBN 13: 9780008377168
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions – this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time.

Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually as they would a bottle of wine.

In this thrilling history of how ordinary, untrained people in occupied Europe faced the great questions of life, death and survival, Paddy Ashdown tells a fast-paced tale of SOE, betrayal and bloodshed in the city labelled ‘la plus belle collaboratrice’ in the whole of France.

Informazioni sull?autore

After service as a Royal Marine Commando Officer, Paddy Ashdown served as a diplomat in the Foreign Office before being elected as the Member of Parliament for Yeovil, serving in that capacity from 1983 to 2001. In 1988 he became leader of the Liberal Democrats, standing aside after eleven years of leading his Party. Later he was appointed as the international community’s High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 2002 to 2006.