Codename Tricycle - Couverture rigide

Miller, Russell

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0436210231 ISBN 13 : 9780436210235

Editeur : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

A wealthy playboy, incorrigible womaniser and dedicated gambler, Dusko Popov was one of Germany's most trusted spies, one of Britain's most successful double agents, and, some say, the inspiration for James Bond. With full access to FBI and MI5 records, along with private family papers, his incredible adventures can now be told authoritatively for the first time. Recruited by the Abwehr in 1940, 27-year-old Popov immediately offered his services to the British. His wry code-name was Tricycle, said to derive from his proclivity for nocturnal threesomes. Throughout the war he fed the Germans with a constant stream of military 'intelligence', all vetted by MI5, and came to be viewed as their most important and reliable agent in Britain; the information he supplied about the strength of the British armed forces after Dunkirk influenced German estimates for the remainder of the war. But when, in June 1941, he was ordered by the Abwehr to the United States to report on the defences at Pearl Harbour, J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, failed to heed his warnings, distrusting all spies and detesting Popov in particular, whom he considered to be 'a moral degenerate'. Facing the danger of

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À propos de l'auteur

Russell Miller is a prize-winning journalist and the author of seven previous books. His book on the Magnum photo agency, was described by John Simpson as 'the best book on photo-journalism I have ever read', and his oral histories of D-Day, Nothing Less Than Victory, and the SOE, Behind The Lines, were widely acclaimed, both in Britain and in the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0436210231
• ISBN 13: 9780436210235
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible