Spy Runner: Ronnie Reed and Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and the Cambridge Spies - Softcover

Reed, Nicholas

 
9780750992640: Spy Runner: Ronnie Reed and Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and the Cambridge Spies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0750992646 ISBN 13: 9780750992640
Verlag: The History Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Most of us remember the seventh of September 1940 as the day the London docks were bombed and devastated by fire. I remember it as the day I was called up. But the police car that collected me took me to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . . .Major Ronnie Reed never spoke about what he did in the Second World War. He was only 23 when it broke out; an amateur radio enthusiast who was working as a maintenance engineer for the BBC. And yet, despite minimal money and qualifications, he became one of the men behind some of the most remarkable spy stories of all time. Recruited in the dead of night from his Anderson shelter, Ronnie became a case officer for double agents, including Eddie Chapman, known then as Agent Zigzag. The passport photo of The Man Who Never Was, was a photo of Ronnie Reed. For ten years after the Second World War, he headed the anti-Russian department of MI5, dealing with notorious spies such as Philby, Burgess and Maclean.In 1994, shortly before Ronnie’s death, he revealed the truth of his remarkable past to his son, Nicholas. In Spy Runner he reveals his father’s fascinating story with a collection of recently released reports and photos from The National Archives, and intimate family snaps.

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Nicholas Reed has been an accredited lecturer since 1992 and is the author of five books on French Impressionists in England. He is the son of legendary MI5 officer Ronnie Reed.

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Verlag
The History Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0750992646
ISBN 13 
9780750992640
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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