Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944. Paddy Ashdown

      

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      First published in Great Britain by William Collins 2016

      Text © Paddy and Jane Ashdown Partnership 2016

      Extract from ‘As I Walked Out One Evening’ © the Estate of W. H. Auden,

      reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd

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       Maps by John Gilkes

      Cover photograph © CollaborationJS / Trevillion Imanages

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      Source ISBN: 9780008140847

      Ebook Edition © September 2016 ISBN: 9780008140830

      Version: 2017-04-11

       DEDICATION

      To the young men and women whose lives were changed in Room 055 of the Old War Office Building in London – and ended in the death camps of Nazi Europe.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

      

      

       Introduction

       Author’s Note

       Maps

      

      

       Prologue: The Execution

      

      

1 Bordeaux – Beginnings

2 Roger Landes

3 Friedrich Dohse

4 André Grandclément

5 A Happy Man and a Dead Body

6 Scientist Gets Established

7 A Visitor for David

8 Crackers and Bangs

9 Businesses, Brothels and Plans

       10 ‘Je suis fort – Je suis même très fort’

       11 A Birthday Present for Friedrich

       12 The Wolf in the Fold

       13 The Trap Closes

       14 The Deal

       15 Arms and Alarms

       16 Progress and Precautions

       17 The Battle of Lestiac

       18 Maquis Officiels

       19 Lencouacq

       20 Of Missions and Machinations

       21 Crossing the Frontier

       22 Cyanide and Execution

       23 Aristide Returns

       24 ‘I come on behalf of Stanislas’

       25 ‘Forewarned is Forearmed’

       26 ‘This Poisoned Arrow Causes Death’