Handbook For Spies Alexander Foote Coachwhip Gray Trade PB USA WWII Espionage
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Pages are clean and unmarked, with no writing or highlighting. Binding is tight and square. Covers show light shelf wear at the corners and edges but no creases or tears.
Publisher: Coachwhip Publications, Landisville, Pennsylvania, United States
Title: Handbook for Spies
Author: Alexander Foote
Format: Gray trade paperback book
Language: English
Genre: Nonfiction biography and military history focusing on espionage and World War II
Publication year: 2011; reprint of a work first published in 1949
Country of origin: United States
ISBN: 1-61646-067-9; 978-1-61646-067-9
Narrative type: True-life account of Soviet spy networks written for adult readers interested in espionage, biographies and war history
Synopsis: British citizen Alexander Foote describes fighting the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, his recruitment into a Soviet spy network in Switzerland against Nazi Germany, the clandestine codes, radio transmissions, and contacts he managed, and his growing disillusionment with Soviet methods leading to capture, debriefing in Russia, and escape back to Britain during World War II.
Keywords: espionage memoir, Soviet intelligence, World War II spies, Spanish Civil War, Swiss undercover operations, intelligence networks, military history, Coachwhip trade paperback