![]() Get the picture? This was a man who first and foremost was driven by self-interest. 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. ![]() Ben Macintyre, a quite superb writer, has a knack of unearthing gems of stories. ![]()
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