Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter

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Label

Agent Jack : the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter

Title remainder

the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter

Statement of responsibility

Robert Hutton

Creator

• Hutton, Robert, (Journalist)

Subject

• Espionage, German -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Great Britain, MI5 -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
• Roberts, Eric
• Warfare and Defence
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain

Language

eng

Summary

Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. He was recruited into the shadowy world of espionage by the great spymaster Maxwell Knight. Roberts penetrated first the Communist Party and then the British Union of Fascists, before playing his greatest role for MI5 - as Hitler's man in London. Codenamed Jack King, he single-handedly built a network of hundreds of British Nazi sympathisers, with many passing secrets to him in the mistaken belief that he was a Gestapo officer. Operation Fifth Column, run by a brilliant woman scientist and a Jewish aristocrat with a sideline in bomb disposal, was kept so secret it was omitted from the reports MI5 sent to Winston Churchill. In a narrative that grips like a thriller, Robert Hutton tells the fascinating story of an operation whose existence has only recently come to light

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 940.5'48641'092
• 940.5'48641'092
• 940.5'48641'092
• 940.548641092

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography