Research Catalog

Title

Operation Blunderhead : the incredible adventures of a double agent in Nazi-occupied Europe / David Gordon Kirby ; foreword by Roger Moorhouse.

Author

Kirby, D. G.

Publication

• Stroud, Gloucestershire : History Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

Moorhouse, Roger

Description

223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Seth, Ronald
• 1939-1945
• Spies > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British
• Espions > Biographies
• Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Récits personnels britanniques
• Spies

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Personal narratives – British.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.`I thank God for one thing: I can still laugh.' Paris August 1944 -- 2.`Circumstances which are both interesting and novel.' London, October 1941 -- 3.`Entirely satisfactory' Birkenhead, March 1942 -- 4.`A little tin god.' Tallinn, March 1936 -- 5.`It seemed to me that the bottom had completely fallen out of things.' Kiiu Aabla, Estonia, October 1942 -- 6.`Then I fell forward.' Tallinn Central Prison, November 1942 -- 7.`I'm afraid they don't like you.' Gestapo Headquarters, Frankfurt-am-Main, February 1943 -- 8.`For me, "practical love" is a physical necessity' Paris, March 1944 -- 9.`Lately I have been in a depressed state of mind.' Oflag 79, Brunswick, October 1944 -- 10.`An occupation for gentlemen of high social standing.' Berlin, Easter 1945 -- 11.`Seth is mental.' Bern, April 1945 -- 12.`I clean buttons very well.' Barnstaple, June 1945 -- 13.`An extremely serious business.' Reading, Christmas 1946 -- 14.`Still drawing considerably on my imagination.' Kiiu Aabla, September 2014.

ISBN

• 9780750964814
• 0750964812
• 9780750965828 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

60002041247

OCLC

• ocn922888653
• 922888653
• SCSB-1847289

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library