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A Reluctant Spy

Om A Reluctant Spy

Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married German national Dr Willy Bu╠ïttner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and returned to settle in Hamburg. Dr Richter died in 1938. After visiting her ailing parents, Hilda returned to Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent, controlled by Gerhardt Eicke in Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain. How could she cope under such strain, and with her son Otto in the German Army? Nor did she expect her evidence to be so cruelly challenged at the Nuremberg Trials. Learn of her post-war life, which took her abroad as a British Ambassador’s wife. This is an extraordinary story based on the life of the author’s great aunt, Hilda. The book includes several authentic accounts.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9781912850648
  • Format:
  • Häftad
  • Sidor:
  • 250
  • Utgiven:
  • 24. september 2019
  • Mått:
  • 231x154x13 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 390 g.
Leveranstid: 2-4 veckor
Förväntad leverans: 13. december 2024

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Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married German national Dr Willy Bu╠ïttner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and returned to settle in Hamburg. Dr Richter died in 1938. After visiting her ailing parents, Hilda returned to Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent, controlled by Gerhardt Eicke in Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain. How could she cope under such strain, and with her son Otto in the German Army? Nor did she expect her evidence to be so cruelly challenged at the Nuremberg Trials. Learn of her post-war life, which took her abroad as a British Ambassador’s wife.
This is an extraordinary story based on the life of the author’s great aunt, Hilda. The book includes several authentic accounts.

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