Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day / Stephan Tal...
Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day / Stephan Tal...
Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day / Stephan Talty.
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Publisher
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2012]
Date
[2012]
Call Numbers
N940.54/112
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 301 pages, [8] plates ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Pt. I. The Making of a Spy -- 1. Tom Mix in Barcelona -- 2. The Training Ground -- 3. Araceli -- 4. The white city 5. The Game -- 6. The Snakepit -- Pt. II. Garbo's Rise -- 7. A Fresh Riot of Ideas -- 8. The System -- 9. The Debut -- 10. The Blacks and the Santa Clauses -- 11. The Rehearsal -- Pt. I...
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Publisher
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2012]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2012]
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Summary
Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich--and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued agent--or double agent: it took four tries before the...
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Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day / Stephan Talty.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-283) and index.
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N940.54/112
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74VvkgmmdZLy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvkgmmdZLy
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ISBN
0547614810 (cloth)
9780547614816 (cloth)
DDC
940.548641092
MMS ID
991013926819702626
