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Johnny:

A Spy's Life
  • ISBN-13: 9780271035697
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By R. S. Rose, By Gordon D. Scott
  • Price: AUD $102.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/03/2010
  • Format: Hardback 512 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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The life and career of a spy, the German-born Johann Heinrich Amadeus "Johnny" de Graaf (1894-1980), who was a double agent for the British against the Soviets before the Second World War, and worked for Canada against Canadian Fascists during the war.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Explanatory Note

Introduction

1 Wilhelmshaven

2 Merchant Marine

3 Conscripted

4 Osowiec

5 Germany in Chaos

6 Die KPD

7 The Moscow Student

8 Assignment Romania

9 British Missions

10 Berlin and Prague

11 Manchuria and China

12 Brazil One

13 Argentina

14 The Return to Moscow

15 Brazil Two

16 The War’s First Years

17 The Montreal Nests

18 A Man from the Sea

19 To Catch a Submarine

20 The Control Commission

21 Home

Epilogue

. . . and the others

Aliases

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“This is an engrossing story, well told from beginning to end. . . . I could not put it down until I reached the final pages.”

—Jim Gerwing, James Bay Beacon

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