| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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"First pub. by Hutchinson & Co (London) in 1950. This ed. includes a new introduction by Nigel Jones."--title page verso. |
| Summary |
On November 9, 1939, Captain Sigismund Payne Best and other members of Britain's ultra-secret Z service sat near a café in Venlo, The Netherlands, waiting to meet with whom supposedly-sound intelligence told them would be German resistance leaders. In reality, what they would meet at Venlo was an SS ambush--leading to the murder of Best's Z associate and the Nazis' seizure of a plain text list of British under-cover agents. It was a massive disaster for British intelligence and a crucial turning point of war-time espionage. Best survived Venlo to tell of the shocking intelligence coups that precipitated the attack. His harrowing account of torture at the hands of the Nazis and five years in the infamous Sachenhausen and Dachau concentration camps offers unparalleled, first-hand details from inside the Third Reich. --from publisher description |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Content; List of Illustrations; Map: The route of Captain S. Payne Best; Introduction by Nigel Jones; The Venlo Incident; Appendix. |
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Best, S. Payne (Sigismund Payne)
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Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
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Best, S. Payne (Sigismund Payne)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Prisoners of war -- Great Britain.
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Prisoners of war -- Germany.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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Concentration camp inmates -- Germany -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
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Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service.
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HISTORY / Europe / Western
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Nigel H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Best, S. Payne (Sigismund Payne). Venlo incident. London : Frontline Books ; New York : Skyhorse Pub., 2009 (OCoLC)436028790 |
| ISBN |
9781473800403 (electronic bk.) |
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1473800404 (electronic bk.) |
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9781473819726 (electronic bk.) |
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1473819725 (electronic bk.) |
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