Odd People - Hunting Spies in the First World War

A wittily observed portrait of an incomparably exciting job at a time of great national crisis and paranoia.

List of contents

Introduction

Preface

1. The detective in real life
2. The imaginative liar
3. The lure of something for nothing
4. The first days
5. The Special Branch
6. War crimes
7. The Germans and the Irish
8. The Casement case
9. Strange sideshows
10. The German spy
11. Muller and others
12. The hireling spy
13. The last executions
14. Some Americans
15. Women spies
16. Curious visitors
17. The end of Rasputin
18. Recruits for the enemy
19. The decline of morale
20. The bogus princess
21. Footnotes to the peace conference
22. The royal unemployed
23. Unrest at home
24. Our communists
25. The return to sanity

About the author

Basil Thomson: Basil Thomson was Assistant Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, which made him the head of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard. As head of CID, Thomson was involved in the arrests of suspected spies, suffragettes, Indian revolutionaries and Irish rebels.

Summary

Odd People is a wittily observed portrait of a paranoid country, part of the Dialogue Espionage Classics Series.

Product details

• Authors: Basil Thomson
• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2014
• EAN: 9781849547970
• ISBN: 978-1-84954-797-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Dialogue Espionage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies