The spy with 29 names : the story of the Second World War's most audacious double agent
Webster, Jason, 1970-2015
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'The Spy with 29 Names' is a gripping account of the exploits of Juan Pujol, the most extraordinary double agent of the Second World War, who was awarded both an Iron Cross by Germany and an MBE by Britain. After the Spanish Civil War, determined to fight the spread of totalitarianism, Pujol moved to Lisbon with his wife, persuading the German intelligence services to take him on. But in fact, he was determined all along to work for the British, whom he saw as the exemplar of democracy and freedom. Seeing the impact of the disinformation this Quixotic freelance agent was feeding to the Germans, MI5 brought him to London, where he created a bizarre fictional network of spies - 29 of them - that misled the entire German high command, including Hitler himself.
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London : Vintage Books, 2015.
Collation:
322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099578246 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.548509940.5485940.5485092920
Language:
English
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BRN:
2208522