Major Ronnie Reed never spoke about what he did in the Second World War. But the police car that collected me took me to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. I remember it as the day I was called up. 1 bestsellers, Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files into exhilarating accounts of undercover daring and deceit.Most of us remember the seventh of September 1940 as the day the London docks were bombed and devastated by fire. It was the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies, and an outrageous lie that travelled all the way to Hitler's desk.In these two Sunday Times No. The body is that of a dead tramp and every single document is fake. A leather attache case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence gold mine: top-secret Allies' invasion plans. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began.Operation MincemeatIn April 1943, a corpse later identified as Major William Martin of the Royal Marines is discovered floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero inside the villain, a man of conscience. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. Two critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling tales of World War II espionage from the master of suspense, Ben MacintyreAgent ZigzagOne December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field.
The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his.
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