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.Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

by: Ben Macintyre

June 04, 2007
If you like adventure then you can't go far wrong with this book. During World War II, petty East End criminal Eddie Chapman finds himself banged up in occupied Jersey's prison. He is given a lifeline that he cannot refuse - come and work for German secret intelligence as a spy or face the consequences. Eddie opts for the former and is thrown into the grandiose world of a German spymaster. Now he is faced with the moral dilemma of double-crossing his country or the gamble of double crossing his new found boss. You'll have to read the book to find out which choice he makes ... I thoroughly recommend this book!


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.For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond

by: Ben Macintyre

April 07, 2008
Dr Blockbuster got a signed copy when Ben MacIntyre was at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August. The title says it all ... a beautiful blend of Ian Fleming and James Bond, containing enlightening background and many interesting facts, unknown EVEN to Dr Blockbuster! Merde!

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.A Foreign Field

by: Ben Macintyre

July 01, 2002
This book seems to have received mixed reviews and I would agree that it fares better in parts than others. However, the unmistakable quality of the writing and the research, merits more than a casual glance at this book.

It is true that it is primarily a love story, a story of great injustice and one of overwhelming sadness for the remaining victim - the daughter. It is also a wonderful depiction of the times and breaks your heart to read the realities of the mind-numbing atrocity that is war, of so many lost sons. We can never "make it better" but perhaps we can always remember. By reading this book, I believe we can try.

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.Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy

by: Ben Macintyre

January 29, 2007
If you like adventure then you can't go far wrong with this book. During World War II, petty East End criminal Eddie Chapman finds himself banged up in occupied Jersey's prison. He is given a lifeline that he cannot refuse - come and work for German secret intelligence as a spy or face the consequences. Eddie opts for the former and is thrown into the grandiose world of a German spymaster. Now he is faced with the moral dilemma of double-crossing his country or the gamble of double crossing his new found boss. You'll have to read the book to find out which choice he makes ... I thoroughly recommend this book!


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.Agent Zigzag (CD): The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy

by: Ben Macintyre

June 11, 2007
If you like adventure then you can't go far wrong with this book. During World War II, petty East End criminal Eddie Chapman finds himself banged up in occupied Jersey's prison. He is given a lifeline that he cannot refuse - come and work for German secret intelligence as a spy or face the consequences. Eddie opts for the former and is thrown into the grandiose world of a German spymaster. Now he is faced with the moral dilemma of double-crossing his country or the gamble of double crossing his new found boss. You'll have to read the book to find out which choice he makes ... I thoroughly recommend this book!


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.Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King

by: Ben Macintyre

February 07, 2005
This is an astonishingly good book, very readable, and i recommend its reading to anyone with an interest in unusual characters.
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.The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty

by: Ben Macintyre

June 15, 1998
This is an astonishingly good book, very readable, and i recommend its reading to anyone with an interest in unusual characters.
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.The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

by: Ben Macintyre

1998-08
Just missed out on the 'oscar' this one. I loved the book, as I do enjoy the era in which it is set,etc .
The subject is unbelieveable and this guy got up to things you couldn't make up! We should think ourselves lucky that Ben McIntyre came up with this, as for a exploits of Worth to have been lost to time would have been a travesty, and anybody that reads this will be enriched by it.
Loses out a teeny tiny bit as it meanders a bit in the middle. Another reviewer had a go at the fact that it can lack detail here and there, but think about it - he was THE master criminal (probably of all time) and didn't record anything,etc and as he was never brought to justice for most of his deeds, we don't have the luxury of court transcripts and suchlike to fall back ... Read More:
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.Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

by: Ben MacIntyre

1992-09
Just missed out on the 'oscar' this one. I loved the book, as I do enjoy the era in which it is set,etc .
The subject is unbelieveable and this guy got up to things you couldn't make up! We should think ourselves lucky that Ben McIntyre came up with this, as for a exploits of Worth to have been lost to time would have been a travesty, and anybody that reads this will be enriched by it.
Loses out a teeny tiny bit as it meanders a bit in the middle. Another reviewer had a go at the fact that it can lack detail here and there, but think about it - he was THE master criminal (probably of all time) and didn't record anything,etc and as he was never brought to justice for most of his deeds, we don't have the luxury of court transcripts and suchlike to fall back ... Read More:
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.The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

by: Ben MacIntyre

1997-08
Just missed out on the 'oscar' this one. I loved the book, as I do enjoy the era in which it is set,etc .
The subject is unbelieveable and this guy got up to things you couldn't make up! We should think ourselves lucky that Ben McIntyre came up with this, as for a exploits of Worth to have been lost to time would have been a travesty, and anybody that reads this will be enriched by it.
Loses out a teeny tiny bit as it meanders a bit in the middle. Another reviewer had a go at the fact that it can lack detail here and there, but think about it - he was THE master criminal (probably of all time) and didn't record anything,etc and as he was never brought to justice for most of his deeds, we don't have the luxury of court transcripts and suchlike to fall back on.
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