Spy Runner (eBook)

Ronnie Reed and Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and the Cambridge Spies

Nicholas Reed (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9454-5 (ISBN)

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Most of us remember the seventh of September 1940 as the day the London docks were bombed and devastated by fire. I remember it as the day I was called up. But the police car that collected me took me to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . . . Major Ronnie Reed never spoke about what he did in the Second World War. He was only 23 when it broke out; an amateur radio enthusiast who was working as a maintenance engineer for the BBC. And yet, despite minimal money and qualifications, he became one of the men behind some of the most remarkable spy stories of all time. Recruited in the dead of night from his Anderson shelter, Ronnie became a case officer for double agents, including Eddie Chapman, known then as Agent Zigzag. The passport photo of The Man Who Never Was, was a photo of Ronnie Reed. For ten years after the Second World War, he headed the anti-Russian department of MI5, dealing with notorious spies such as Philby, Burgess and Maclean. In 1994, shortly before Ronnie's death, he revealed the truth of his remarkable past to his son, Nicholas. In Spy Runner he reveals his father's fascinating story with a collection of recently released reports and photos from The National Archives, and intimate family snaps.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 2nd World War • agent zigzag, eddie chapman, operation mincemeat, mi5, cold war, radio operator, major ronnie reed, second world war, ww2, wwii, 2nd world war, hitler, iron cross, Philby, Burgess, Maclean, mi5 officer, spy, espionage, national archives, cambridge 5, cambridge five, oral history • Burgess • Cambridge 5 • Cambridge Five • Cold War • eddie chapman, mi5, cold war, radio operator, major, second world war, world war two, world war 2, world war ii, ww2, wwii, 2nd world war, hitler, iron cross, Philby, Burgess, Maclean, mi5 officer, spy, espionage, national archives, cambridge 5, cambridge five, oral history, philby, burgess, maclean • Espionage • Hitler • iron cross • maclean • Major • major ronnie reed and agent zigzag operation mincemeat and the cambridge spies • major ronnie reed and agent zigzag operation mincemeat and the cambridge spies|eddie chapman • MI5 • mi5 officer • national archives • Oral History • Philby • radio operator • Second World War • Spy • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-9454-1 / 0750994541
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9454-5 / 9780750994545