Gentleman Spymaster: How Lt. Col. Tommy ÔTarÕ Robertson Double-crossed the Nazis
by Elliott, Geoffrey
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London: Methuen, 2011. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket x + 332pp., b/w plates, bibliog., index, Ôbiography of Thomas Argyll Robertson who played a key role in Operation Mincemeat (the Second World War operation which suggested that an invasion of Greece was imminent) and masterminded the 1944 Operation Fortitude (which was designed to persuade the Germans that the invasion of France would not take place in Normandy but in Pas de Calais). Thomas Argyll Robertson, known universally as Tar, joined MI5 in March 1933, recruited by Vernon Kell, the organisation's founder. Tar's deft handling of a widely disparate collection of Double Cross agents, among them criminals, drug addicts and drunks, brought some spectacular military advantages for BritainÕ
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- Gentleman Spymaster: How Lt. Col. Tommy ÔTarÕ Robertson Double-crossed the Nazis
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- Elliott, Geoffrey
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- 1st edition
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- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
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- octavo
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