Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
by Macintyre, Ben
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0747592837
- ISBN 13
- 9780747592839
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007. Second printing. Original British edition. Slight shelf wear. Pages fine. Several photo plate sections. One December night in 1942, a NAZI parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero, inside the villain, a man of conscience: the problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began. Charming criminal, con man, and philanderer. And one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. "Agent Zigzag" offers a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent. Thrilling real-life story of a double agent in the Second World War. "The story of Eddie Chapman is diifferent. In fiction it would be rejected as improbable" - MI5. "Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving." - John le Carre. 372 pages.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Synopsis
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. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service who at one time volunteered to assassinate Hitler for his countrymen. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, all the while 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.The Nazis feted Chapman as a hero and awarded him the Iron Cross. In Britain, he was pardoned for his crimes, becoming the only wartime agent to be thus rewarded. Both countries provided for the mother of his child and his mistress. Sixty years after the end of the war, and ten years after Chapman's death, MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman's files, releasing more than 1,800 pages of top secret material and allowing the full story of Agent Zigzag to be told for the first time.A gripping story of loyalty, love, and treachery, Agent Zigzag offers a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
- Author
- Macintyre, Ben
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747592837
- ISBN 13
- 9780747592839
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- SPIES WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_SECRET SERVICE_GERMANY
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