9780345027696 - A Spy Has No Friends de Ronald Seth (2 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Illustrated by Bob Schulz (illustrateur). 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; First US paperback edition. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some light slanting to the spine of the book, along with some beginning creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Appointed Professor of Literature at the University of Tallinn, Estonia, Seth returned to London at the start of World War II, joining the BBC and helping to start the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau. In 1941 he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and in 1942 joined the Special Operations Executive. Parachuted into Estonia, he was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the Sicherheitsdienst (the SS intelligence agency) as an agent for a mission to Britain. He spent most of the rest of the war as an informer in the Oflag 79 prisoner-of-war camp, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS) , which he carried to London via Switzerland. " (from Wikipedia).

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1952 UK hardcover release among others, although the copyright page says 1972) first printing stated of a fine softcover pages toning. The controversial story of the author's WWII spy exploits in Nazi Germany.