Game Of Spies by Paddy Ashdown

26 in stock

239mm x 158mm x 35mm

Pages: 400

Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions GÇô 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 GÇô on British, one French and one German GÇô 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 GÇÿla plus belle collaboratriceGÇÖ in the whole of France.