LEADER 02623nam 2200421 450 001 9910150519603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7509-6582-7 035 $a(CKB)3810000000069067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4781385 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4781385 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11328571 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL824975 035 $a(OCoLC)962874443 035 $a(BIP)051391907 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000069067 100 $a20170120h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aOperation blunderhead $ethe incredible adventures of a double agent in Nazi-occupied Europe /$fDavid Gordon Kirby 210 1$aStroud, Gloucestershire, [England] :$cThe History Press,$d2015. 210 4$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (170 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 311 $a0-7509-6481-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 8 $aOperation Blunderhead was a unique SOE project to parachute an agent into occupied Estonia in 1942. The central character was an unlikely hero, and his survival owed more to his ability to spin a tale than to any daring qualities. Blunderhead was the only SOE operation in a country that had been incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, but it involved no cooperation with Moscow (although SOE sought permission for the go-ahead). Uniquely, the operation was not initiated by SOE, but was rather the brainchild of Ronald Sydney Seth (after the war he reinvented himself as Dr. Chartham, a pioneering sexologist). Seth left entertaining accounts of his training and these throw light on his extraordinary character and the ways in which SOE sought to prepare its agents. His mission was a failure: Seth was captured, interrogated by the Germans, and imprisoned. He claimed that he was saved from a public hanging by the failure to open at the last minute of the trapdoor on the scaffold. From Tallinn he was transferred to a succession of prisons in the Baltic and Germany and ended up in Paris with a mistress where he trained to be a German secret agent. In the war's final months he was taken to Berlin and entrusted with a mission to Britain sanctioned by Himmler. Was he a prisoner who agreed to work for the Germans, or was he a double agent? 676 $a940.548641 700 $aGordon Kirby$b David$01379351 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150519603321 996 $aOperation blunderhead$93418855 997 $aUNINA