Research Catalog
SNOW : the double life of a World War II spy
- Title
- SNOW : the double life of a World War II spy / Nigel West and Madoc Roberts.
- Author
- West, Nigel.
- Publication
- London : Biteback, 2011.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-2015 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Roberts, Madoc.
- Description
- xiii, 224 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "NOW is the codename assigned to Arthur Owens, one of the most remarkable British spies of the Second World War. This 'typical Welsh underfed type' became the first of the great double-cross agents who were to play a major part in Britain's victory over the Germans. When the stakes could not have been higher, MI5 sought to build a double-cross system based on the shifting loyalties of a duplicitous, philandering and vain anti-hero who was boastful and brave, reckless and calculating, ruthless and mercenary...but patriotic. Or was he? Based on recently declassified files and meticulous research, SNOW reveals for the first time the truth about an extraordinary man. Arthur Owens, codename SNOW, was central to the espionage game played between spymasters, Tar Robertson of MI5 and Nikolaus Ritter of the German secret service. Owens himself was the most ambiguous of characters: nervous and highly-strung, but able to operate with supreme coolness in an environment where a single slip-up would lead to him being executed for treason by either side. Yet he was able to keep his true loyalties hidden even from those closest to him. The keystone of MI5's double-cross system, SNOW became, almost despite himself, one of Britain's most successful spies and sources of enemy information. His work was crucial in decoding enemy ciphers, and his double game meant that, in the fraught summer of 1940 as Germany geared up for invasion, Agent SNOW lured dozens of German spies into MI5's clutches."--Publisher's website.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-219) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Contact -- The Welsh network -- The dead don't care -- Rendezvous in the North Sea -- CELERY -- Interrogation -- Dartmoor -- Debrief -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Appendix I: finding snow -- Appendix II: Abwehr cover address -- Appendix III: Snow's wireless cipher -- A note on the sources.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2015
- ISBN
- 1849540934 (hbk.)
- 9781849540933 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 755067939
- Author
- West, Nigel.
- Title
- SNOW : the double life of a World War II spy / Nigel West and Madoc Roberts.
- Imprint
- London : Biteback, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-219) and index.
- Added Author
- Roberts, Madoc.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-2015