Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II (reissued)

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 M08 2 - 384 pages
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent.

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About the author (2010)

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of Agent Zigzag, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Tesco Biography of the Year at the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards. He lives in London with his wife and three children. The Last Word- Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue, published by Bloomsbury in September 2009, and in paperback in September 2010, is a collection of delicious morsels that celebrate the richness, ridiculousness and resilience of language.

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