Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
by:
Stephan Talty (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780544035010 (0544035011)
ASIN: 544035011
Publish date: May 7th 2013
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Military,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
World War II,
Military History,
World History,
Spain
Talty's book about Garbro - in reality a Spanish man, Juan Pujol Garica who sided with the UK during the Second World War - is a good biography about a mystery man. Talty presents him warts and all. Considering how in some biographies about famous men, the wives are depicted either as knowing and fo...
If Double Cross is the broad overview of the double agents in WWII, Agent Garbo is a deeper look into one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of the war. Very well done.