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Game of Spies
- Author
- Paddy Ashdown
- Narrator
- Paddy Ashdown
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 22 September 2016
- Run Time
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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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 uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels 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.
In this thrilling history of how ordinary, untrained people in occupied Europe faced the great questions of life, death and survival, Paddy Ashdown tells a fast-paced tale of SOE, betrayal and bloodshed in the city labelled ‘la plus belle collaboratrice’ in the whole of France.
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Details
- Author
- Paddy Ashdown
- Narrator
- Paddy Ashdown
- Duration
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 September 2016
- ISBN
- 9780008181932
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Modern warfare, Second World War, Espionage and secret services, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Military intelligence, Autobiography: historical, political and military, True stories of discovery, Battles / military campaigns, Special and elite forces
Synopsis
Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions – this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time. Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels 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. In this thrilling history of how ordinary, untrained people in occupied Europe faced the great questions of life, death and survival, Paddy Ashdown tells a fast-paced tale of SOE, betrayal and bloodshed in the city labelled ‘la plus belle collaboratrice’ in the whole of France.
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