Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter
Hutton, Robert (Journalist)2018
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Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. He was recruited into the shadowy world of espionage by the great spymaster Maxwell Knight. Roberts penetrated first the Communist Party and then the British Union of Fascists, before playing his greatest role for MI5 - as Hitler's man in London. Codenamed Jack King, he single-handedly built a network of hundreds of British Nazi sympathisers, with many passing secrets to him in the mistaken belief that he was a Gestapo officer. Operation Fifth Column, run by a brilliant woman scientist and a Jewish aristocrat with a sideline in bomb disposal, was kept so secret it was omitted from the reports MI5 sent to Winston Churchill. In a narrative that grips like a thriller, Robert Hutton tells the fascinating story of an operation whose existence has only recently come to light.
Main title:
Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter / Robert Hutton.
Author:
Hutton, Robert (Journalist), author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.
Collation:
xiv, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781474605113 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.548641920940.548940.5486940.548641092940.548641 HUT940.5486 HUTB ROB
Local class:
920 ROBE940.548 H940.548641 B ROB
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1286508
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