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Название: The Gestapo's Most Improbable Hostage
Автор(ы): Hugh Mallory Falconer
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2018
ISBN: 152672183X
Страниц: 224
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 52 MB

So starts the story of Squadron Leader Hugh Mallory Falconer, British Special Operations Executive agent and prisoner of the Nazis for over two and a half grueling years. When he was caught out of uniform by the Gestapo in Tunisia not long after the culmination of Operation Torch in 1942, he had no right to expect anything but the worst. Quite miraculously however, his papers vanished whilst he was being sent to Gestapo HQ in Berlin and, as a result, no-one could make out who he was. This, coupled with his quick-thinking and cunning whilst under interrogation, led to the Nazis including him in a group of high-profile hostages, holding him alongside such notable figures as the former French Minister Leon Blum.