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Game of Spies

Game of Spies

The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

by Paddy Ashdown
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/06/2017

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Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions - this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time.

'Game of Spies' tells the story of a lethal spy triangle in Bordeaux between 1942 and 1944 - and of France's greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader Andre Grand-clement.



The story centres on three men: one British, one French and one German and the duel they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually as they would a bottle of wine. It is a story of SOE, treachery, bed-hopping and executions in the city labelled 'la plus collaboratrice' in the whole of France.
ISBN:
9780008140847
9780008140847
Category:
Second World War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
14-06-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
197x130x31mm
Weight:
0.39kg
Paddy Ashdown

After service as a Royal Marine Commando Officer and a commander of a Special Boat Service unit in the Far East, Paddy Ashdown served as a diplomat in the Foreign Office before, in due course, being elected as the Member of Parliament for Yeovil, serving in that capacity from 1983 to 2001.

In 1988 he became leader of the Liberal Democrats, standing aside after eleven years of leading his Party. Later he was appointed as the international community’s High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 2002 to 2006.

He is the author of many books, including A Brilliant Little Operation which won the British Army Military History prize for 2013.

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