Eventually accepted, he was then parachuted into England, where he promptly landed flat on his face and then swiftly handed himself over to the police and volunteered to become a secret agent. The only way out of this benighted existence was to volunteer his services to the Abwehr as a secret agent.
Now he has told the equally remarkable story of Second World War double agent Eddie Chapman.Ĭhapman, a criminal, sybarite and serial philanderer, found himself on Jersey when the Germans invaded and was transferred to a hellhole of a prison in Paris. A previous book, A Foreign Field, told the remarkable tale of four British soldiers given sanctuary in a French village during the First World War after being marooned behind enemy lines. 1 bestsellers, Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files into exhilarating accounts of undercover daring and deceit.Ben Macintyre, a quite superb writer, has a knack of unearthing gems of stories.
It was the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies, and an outrageous lie that travelled all the way to Hitler's desk.In these two Sunday Times No. The body is that of a dead tramp and every single document is fake. A leather attache case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence gold mine: top-secret Allies' invasion plans. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began.Operation MincemeatIn April 1943, a corpse later identified as Major William Martin of the Royal Marines is discovered floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero inside the villain, a man of conscience. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. Two critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling tales of World War II espionage from the master of suspense, Ben MacintyreAgent ZigzagOne December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field.
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