Betraying Hitler. The Story of Fritz Kolbe, the Most Important Spy of the Second World War

London England: Atlantic Books. Fine/Near Fine. 2005. 1st Uk Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1843543869 Hardback Hardback. Translated by George A. Holoch, Jr.. During the Second World War the Fritz Kolbe worked as a Foreign Ministry official in Germany. he hated the Nazi regime and in an attempt to aid its demise he offered to spy for free for the Allied forces. The Americans assingned him the code name 'George Wood' and between 1943 and 1945, at great risk to his life, he smuggled more than 1,600 top-secret Nazi documents - from details of military tactics to reports on missile developments and plans to deport Jews to the death camps. Miraculously escaping detection by the Gestapo, he continued to work as an informer until the dinal days of the war, influencing the outcome of a number of conflicts. But when the war ended, Kolbe's efforts were not officially recognized by the Allies. Denied a visa to the US, he was ostrazied by his colleagues at the german Foreign Ministry and branded a traitor. He later moved to Switzerland where he became a salesman for a US poer tools company, dying in obscurity in 1971. His extraordinary story has remained hidden until four years ago, when the CIA declassified over 1,000 documents detailing Kolbe's exploits. Lucas Delattre, the only historian allowed access to Kolbe's private archives, has pieced together the story of the man declared by CIA director Richard Helms to have 'delivered the most important information ever supplied by an agent working for the Allies'. Illustrated. 308 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .