Some of my Favorite Spies by Ronald Seth Vintage First Edition Hardcover in Original Dust Jacket A Collection of Espionage Stories 1968

Some of my Favorite Spies by Ronald Seth Vintage First Edition Hardcover in Original Dust Jacket A Collection of Espionage Stories 1968

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, slightly slanted, dust jacket is tape repaired by a previous owner)

—Recounts the skills and daring employed by twelve men and women who, as espionage agents, rendered political and military service to their countries: Sir Francis Walsingham, Daniel Defoe, Major Benjamin Tallmadge, Belle Boyd, Robert Baden-Powell, Jules Silber, Charles Lucieto, Louise de Bettignies, Alexander Foote, Wing Commander Yeo-Thomas G. C., Christine Granville G. M., and Gordon Lonsdale.

> Robert Chartham was the pseudonym of Ronald Sydney Seth (1911-1985) an English writer who used the surname Chartham for his activity as a sexologist and the surname Seth for books about travel and espionage.As a child Seth was a chorister at Ely Cathedral and a King's Scholar at King's School, Ely. He was educated at Cambridge University.

Appointed Professor of Literature at the University of Tallinn, Estonia, Seth returned to London at the start of World War II, joining the BBC and helping to start the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau. In 1941 he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and in 1942 joined the Special Operations Executive. Parachuted into Estonia, he was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the Sicherheitsdienst (the SS intelligence agency) as an agent for a mission to Britain. He spent most of the rest of the war as an informer in the Oflag 79 prisoner-of-war camp, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS), which he carried to London via Switzerland

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