Mrs Zigzag

Author : Betty Chapman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492764
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Zigzag written by Betty Chapman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Betty Farmer married double agent Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, she knew her life would never be ordinary. Yet even before her marriage to Eddie, her life involved incendiary bombs, serial killers, film roles and love affairs with flying aces. After her marriage she coped with Eddie’s mistresses, his criminal activities, separations and personal traumas.Coming from humble origins, Betty would, in time, own a beauty business, a health farm and a castle in Ireland, become the friend and confidante of film stars and an African president, and the honoured guest of Middle Eastern royalty. In an age where women were still very much second-class, she became a perfect example of what, in spite of everything, was possible.Much has been written about Eddie Chapman, films have been made, television programmes produced. Yet alongside Eddie for most of his extraordinary life was an equally extraordinary woman: Mrs Zigzag. This book tells the story of the Chapmans’ often fraught but ultimately loving relationship for the first time.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408811499
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Zigzag written by Ben Macintyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307405508
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Zigzag written by Ben Macintyre and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”—William Grimes, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) “Wildly improbable but entirely true . . . [a] compellingly cinematic spy thriller with verve.”—Entertainment Weekly ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post 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. In 1941, after training as 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. Instead, he contacted M15, the British Secret service, and for the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. 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 ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman’s full story for the first time. It’s a gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.

Author : Edgar Wollstone
Publisher : AJS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Agent Zigzag written by Edgar Wollstone and published by AJS. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Second World War's most colourful individuals was double agent Eddie Chapman. Edward or Eddie Chapman was an expert safecracker and career criminal from Northern England, not an Aryan super-saboteur. He was possibly the most daring and accomplished double agent in the world at the time, unknown to everyone but the most covert agencies in the nation. He was taken in by the Abwehr, German military intelligence from a French prison, and after arriving in Britain, he switched allegiances. Eddie Chapman is evidence that a superhero need not be a face-masher with bulging muscles. He wasn't a huge man, he wasn't a murderer, and he avoided conflict whenever he could. He nevertheless succeeded in becoming one of the most colourful war heroes in British history by playing both the British and the Germans off one another, engaging in a variety of escapades, crossing a variety of redlines, and generally living up to expectations for a professional spy. The villain was a hero, and the traitor was a man of loyalty. It was difficult to determine where one character ended and the other began in Chapman. This is the real-life account of Agent Zigzag, a spy who deceived the Nazis only out of his own sense of excitement.

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Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Intelligence written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1992 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Author : Chicago Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction & Juvenile Books ... written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 574 pages
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Author : Somerville Public Library (Mass.).
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Author : Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: