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Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre (Hardcover, 2007)
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BEN MACINTYRE. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. He was also a secret spy for Britain, alias Agent Zigzag.
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Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. He was also a secret spy for Britain, alias Agent Zigzag. Agent Zigzag is the untold story of Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent. Genuinely courageous, able to withstand withering interrogations from both sides, Chapman was a dashing, charming and fiercely intelligent man whose talents led to a single end: breaking the rules. He wore loud suits, drove fast cars, and had a woman in every port. Yet, at the same time he was, in his own way, loyal to his lover and their child. This was a man who courted contradictions as much as he courted adventure. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero; the problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers, was to know where one ended, and the other began. In 1943, Colonel Tim Stephens of MI5 said of the story of Chapman: 'In fiction it would be rejected as improbable.' MI5 have only just released the material on Chapman, and Macintyre has full access to all of Chapman's manuscripts, letters and photographs. What emerges from this trove is an exhilarating true story of loyalty and betrayal, courage and cowardice, a crook who was also a hero. It is one of the most gripping untold stories of the Second World War.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780747587941
eBay Product ID (ePID)89526461
Product Key Features
Book TitleAgent Zigzag: the True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
AuthorBen Macintyre
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicGovernment, History
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages380 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorBen Macintyre
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 31 May, 2019
'Wor' hero
TV channel hopping a couple of days ago and saw Christopher Plummer in a film, Triple Cross. The synopsis read as based on true events. Looked it up and it was about a character from my neck of the woods. So I bought the book. Have just started it but it's right up my street.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 01 Jun, 2017
"AGENT Zig Zag" THE EDDIE CHAPMAN Story
Couldnt put this book down! Amazing TRUE story about double agent & crook,EDDIE CHAPMAN in WW2.....you just could not make it up!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 27 Jun, 2016
True story of Eddie Chapman
Brilliant book. Very compelling reading. Better than any fictional book. You would have said it was too far fetched. I don't think there would be any more Eddie Chapmans out there today. This book will be very hard to beat for a good read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 23 Jun, 2023
A must read
Brilliant true story. A must read Absorbing.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 19 May, 2021
title OK
An amazing true tale with good back up of photographsVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Apr, 2021
Agent Zigzag
True story with artistic licenceVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Jun, 2024
All good
All goodVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
