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Game of Spies

The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

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Game of Spies

By: Paddy Ashdown
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Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions – this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time.

Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually as they would a bottle of wine.

In this thrilling history of how ordinary, untrained people in occupied Europe faced the great questions of life, death and survival, Paddy Ashdown tells a fast-paced tale of SOE, betrayal and bloodshed in the city labelled ‘la plus belle collaboratrice’ in the whole of France.

©2016 Paddy Ashdown (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Europe France Great Britain Military Military & War Wars & Conflicts World War II
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‘Fascinating and fast moving’ Literary Review
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This is a book for anyone with a serious interest in WWII and, more specifically, the French Resistance, and the SOE. In addition to the three main characters, the spy, the traitor, and the Nazi, there is a large and diverse cast of characters with various (and sometimes shifting) allegiances, roles, and relationships. This means that the book requires more concentration than many, but it is concentration amply rewarded, from the beginning to the epilogue which lingers in my mind for what it says about people and organisations during war and peace. Not only is the story compelling and often exciting, it is historically significant. As Ashdown points out, there is no element of moral judgement in his book yet, looking beyond the events and characters depicted here, readers must inevitably try to imagine what they might have done in that time and place: how would they decide between their own survival, the safety of loved ones, love for country and, especially in the case of the French, liberty. Paddy Ashdown is a wonderful writer and story teller, and his he is the perfect narrator for this book. He has excellent French, essential in a book with so many French names. And – praise be - he is one of few English narrators who do not mispronounce Roosevelt. The book is a triumph and I have already started re-reading it.

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