Helpful Score: 2
An excellent book by a fascinating man. Winterbotham, a teenage RAF pilot in WWI, was drawn into RAF intelligence operations at the beginning of the thirties and spent the next seven years off and on as a penetration agent in Germany, socializing with the top Nazis and the Luftwaffe brass. This book is his personal story of those years in great detail.
I had originally learned of his name by reading his first book, about the Ultra secret, back in the seventies. So when I saw this item available on PBS I ordered it. The writing is excellent, as was his first book. There are very few operational intelligence people who can write as well as Winterbotham. If you have any interest in espionage or the history of the run-up to WWII, this is definitely a book for you.
I had originally learned of his name by reading his first book, about the Ultra secret, back in the seventies. So when I saw this item available on PBS I ordered it. The writing is excellent, as was his first book. There are very few operational intelligence people who can write as well as Winterbotham. If you have any interest in espionage or the history of the run-up to WWII, this is definitely a book for you.
