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"Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau is a gripping diary-like personal account of espionage during the Second World War and is one of very few historic memoirs written by an ex-Abwehr officer. Detailed is how Colonel Nikolaus Ritter, following a brief World War I career and over ten years as a businessman...

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Main Author: Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974 (Author)
Other Authors: Barbier, Mary (writer of foreword.), Wallace, Katharine R. (Katharine Ritter), 1934- (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, > 1899-1974.
Germany. > Wehrmacht. > Amt Ausland/Abwehr.
Germany. > Wehrmacht. > Amt Ausland/Abwehr > Officers > Biography.
Spies.
Secret service.
Espionage, German.
Armed Forces > Officers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Military.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Espionnage allemand > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Espionnage allemand > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Service secret > Allemagne.
Espions > Allemagne > Biographies.
Espionage, German > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Espionage, German > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service > Germany.
Spies > Germany > Biography.
United States.
Great Britain.
Germany.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Arthur Owens (aka Snow and Johnny)
  • Dr. Rantzau
  • The Abwehr
  • Launching a network
  • Orders from Admiral Canaris
  • Departing for America
  • New York
  • Hermann Lang and the Norden bombsight
  • Contacts in America
  • Mr. X
  • A close encounter
  • Reconstructing the bombsight
  • British agents in the Abwehr
  • Lily Stein
  • Ein Glas Bier
  • Count László Almásy
  • Sabotage across borders
  • Border closings
  • Sea rendezvous
  • Operation Sea Lion
  • Suspending Sea Lion
  • Africa mission
  • Desert devils
  • End of war
  • Reflections.

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