Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal | Ben Macintyre

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal | Ben Macintyre | Unputdownable!

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Agent Zigzag: A Tr...

	Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal Ben Macintyre Harmony, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Agent Zigzag

The book was excellent. It is well written and engaging. The life story is fascinating, and the descriptions of the British anti-spy organizations are eye-opening.

Unputdownable!

Macintyre tells Chapman's WW2 story exceptionally well, keeping it pacey when it would be so easy to litter each page with footnotes and extensive background information.

Morris Dancers, co-incidences in the Berkeley, professional conjurors, excesses by the British and German elite, mistakes and double-crosses, the story of Chapman's Iron Cross, personalities and luck. Just some of the colour that make this story stranger then fiction but an absolutely compelling and entertaining read.

Can't recommend it highly enough.

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A man with 2 countries

Brilliant and exciting book. Well written--but a few too many editing mistakes. Some areas are alluded to that I wish would have been explored more, id est, Germany sympathies and more teeth to the assertion that he may have spied for the Germans and passed good info. while a double-agent.

I thought the author maintained good objectivity as a British writer. I wish he would have discussed the post-WWII concentration camp conditions of the Nazi prisoners hidden and held at Beltchely(believe it was here) where one of Eddie's Brit handlers took over.

Great book--should become a movie--lots of sharp writing and analysis

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Me..reading WWII history... it can't be! (But it's great!)

Mostly I read fiction, with some nonfiction thrown in, and generally I've found WWII history to be long-winded and not a lot of fun.

In this case, Ben Macintyre's excellent research provides the backbone to this amazing book - the story reads like James Bond, only with the grit of real life. It provides us with a peek into a strange and interesting life, and the people who really participated in espionage and counterespionage during the war - the good, the bad, the truthful, and the unreliable.

One of the top non-fiction books, ever!

For the past 30 years or so, I have only read non-fiction books. However, it's been quite uncommon for me to find a true page turner - but this is one of such books.

There is very little that one can add to previous reviews or to the editorial comment. However, let me just say that as a mix of biographical and historical book, this book has all of the perfect elements to make an outstanding true account: intrigue, suspense... without the usual tiresome raft of names, dates and places of the typical historical book. This is a true gem that proves that truth is much more bizarre than fiction.

This is the book that will make everyone to enjoy (or rediscover) the true pleasure of reading!

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