Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona finished and the additional started.
In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory. As a replacement for, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service who at one time volunteered to assassinate Hitler for his countrymen. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, all the while weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and, miraculously, keeping his tales straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce gorgeous women along the way.
The Nazis feted Chapman as a hero and awarded him the Iron Cross. In Britain, he was pardoned for his crimes, apt the only wartime agent to be thus rewarded. Both countries provided for the mother of his child and his mistress. Sixty years after the end of the war, and ten years after Chapman’s death, MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman’s files, releasing more than 1,800 pages of top secret material and allowing the full tale of Agent Zigzag to be told for the first time.
A gripping tale of loyalty, like, and treachery, Agent Zigzag offers a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and treachery.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Okay, I haven’t had a chance to read the book yet, so this is a review of its reputation (brilliant: it was recommended by a fellow WWII literature buff who knows what he’s talking about) and of the seller, who did a excellent job. It’s wonderful that Amazon lists used books from additional sellers as well as new books from it’s own stock. I use Alibris and Abebooks too, but Amazon is the most comprehensive service of the three. Still, it’s excellent to have lots of choices, among services as well as among book sellers. I say this as an leader who depends on book sales for a living.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Includes too much trivia. If you want to read about German intelligence, read Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. If you want a fantastic spy novel read The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
A suposedly right tale, but frankly it did not have much of a ring of truth about it. Certainly parts are right, but as much of the tale relied on the writings of a con man, how much can one judge. It has that, after the fact ring, of the victors did nothing incorrect and the vanquished did nothing right. The con man, if the tale is to be trusted lived like a prince in both France, Norway, Germany and England fetted by all sides. Hmmm, Doesn’t pass my litmus test.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Agent Zigzag has no deep meaning beyond the reflection that (as the Book of Proverbs says) the intentions of a man are “like deep water.” But it is a roaring excellent tale told by a master of the literary craft. Agent Zigzag takes its place with World War II classics such as Ewen Montagu, The Man Who Never Was (1953) and David Howarth, We Die Alone (1955).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is an absolutely fantastic book. There are many details about the war I had not read/heard about before. Lots of facts and details scattered throughout. Very worthwhile reading.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5