A Spy Has No Friends - To Save His Country, He Became the Enemy

From the beginning of his mission as a British agent against the Nazis, Ronald Seth was a hunted man. Shot at as he parachuted down to the Estonian coast, he suffered extremes of deprivation before being captured and sentenced to death by hanging. And then the real hunt began - for what he knew, and for his identity. Seth had only one hope - could he convince his captors that he was a Nazi sympathiser and trick them into employing him as a spy? Enlisted as a German agent, in a position of precarious trust and constant danger, he embarked on a nightmare journey that took him from occupied Paris to the dark heart of the Nazi regime during the fall of Berlin. A SPY HAS NO FRIENDS is the thrilling story of a man playing a dangerous game against a lethal opponent.

About the author

Ronald Seth (1911-1985) was educated in Ely and Cambridge. On completing his MA, he went to Tallin University, Estonia, where he held the English Language chair and completed his Ph.D in 1939. When war broke out, he founded the BBC Monitoring Service and was then seconded to Special Operations Executive. He was assigned the task of working covertly in Estonia to organise resistance against the Nazis. Betrayed and captured, he endured solitary confinement for almost two years but, during that time, persuaded his captors he was a Nazi sympathiser. He joined Luftwaffe Intelligence, exposed constantly to the danger of losing the trust of Nazi officials. Smuggled into Paris in 1944, he was taken back to Germany with the retreating SS, from where he eventually escaped. After the war, he was employed by the Ministry of Works, became a school teacher for a time, and eventually devoted himself to a writing career.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Seth, Seth Ronald
• Publisher: Review Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9780755318056
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-1805-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography & True Stories, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, True war & combat stories, Fascism & Nazism, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Far-right political ideologies and movements, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True war and combat stories, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General