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

Author: Ben Macintyre
Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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  Read more...
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Named Person: Eddie Chapman
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ben Macintyre
ISBN: 9780307353405 0307353400
OCLC Number: 77004296
Notes: Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, c2007.
Description: xii, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Hotel de la Plage -- Jersey Gaol -- Island at war -- Romainville -- Villa de la Bretonniere -- Dr. Gaumann -- Codebreakers -- The mosquito -- Under unseen eyes -- The drop -- Martha's exciting night -- Camp 020 -- 35 Crespigny Road -- What a way out -- Freda and Diane -- Abracadabra -- The greater the adventure -- Stowaway spy -- Joli Albert -- Damp squib -- The ice front -- The girl at the Ritz -- Sabotage consultant -- Lunch at the Lutetia -- The prodigal cook -- Doodlebugs -- Going to the dogs -- Case dismissed.
Responsibility: Ben MacIntyre.
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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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