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Vivid, fast-paced, and utterly compelling, the extraordinary story of WWI's most successful intelligence operation.
List of contents
Introduction vii
1 From Boer to Briton 1
2 Getting to the firing line 11
3 I enter the British secret service 25
4 Van Bergen starts my first organisation 41
5 The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns 49
6 Militarisati on of the 'White Lady ' 69
7 The Hirson Platoon 77
8 The German Secret Police - their methods and organisation 93
9 Exploits of the Chimay company 105
10 The affair of the Villa des Hirondelles 117
11 Léon Trulin - youngest spy shot during the war 129
12 The Biscops Service 141
13 The Conneux Flying Squad 153
14 Siegburg - prison for women 163
15 Deserters and a Dame 171
16 Surprises of the coast patrol - the wireless torpedo boat 187
17 Espionage , counter-espionage and spy hysteria 195
18 '40 OB' 209
19 Spy from the sky 227
20 An astounding proposition from the Hamburg soldiers' council - and exit the Kaiser 235
21 Liquidation of the service 245
22 Edith Cavell - reflections 251
23 Passport control in Germany 263
24 Yvonne - an interlude 273
25 Investigating war wizardry 285
26 The German secret service makes a proposal 297
27 Russian adventure 303
28 Sabotage in the USA - Black Tom blows up 331
29 The Kingsland fire 343
About the author
After the war, Captain Henry Landau left the Service and during the 1930's wrote several books about his time as a spy, published only in the US to avoid prosecution under the UK Official Secrets Act.
