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Agent Zigzag
The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy
Agent Zigzag
The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph
'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carré
'This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures . . . It would be impossible to recommend it too highly' Mail on Sunday
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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 suave, courageous and unpredictable, Chapman was by turns a traitor, a hero, a villain and a man of conscience. But, as his spymasters and many lovers often wondered, who was the real Eddie Chapman?
Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create an exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent.
Product details
Published | 15 Aug 2024 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 384 |
ISBN | 9781526682642 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures ... It would be impossible to recommend it too highly
Mail on Sunday
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A fascinating biography of this most astonishing and insouciant of double agents ... incredible
Sunday Telegraph
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Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving
John Le Carré
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Macintyre never misses a delightful, haunting or terrifying detail ... Buy it for dads everywhere but read it too
Observer
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Never short on thrills
Independent on Sunday
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A cracker of a Second World War double-agent yarn
The Times