Operation Blunderhead: The Incredible Adventures Of A Double Agent In Nazi-Occupied Europe (2015) By David Gordon Kirby
 
A meticulously researched story of a champagne spy who engineered his own failed SOE mission in Estonia and went on to fool both the British and German secret services. A compelling and original story of World War II. Operation Blunderhead was a unique SOE project to parachute an agent into occupied Estonia in 1942. The central character was an unlikely hero, and his survival owed more to his ability to spin a tale than to any daring qualities. Blunderhead was the only SOE operation in a country that had been incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, but it involved no cooperation with Moscow (although SOE sought permission for the go-ahead). Uniquely, the operation was not initiated by SOE, but was rather the brainchild of Ronald Sydney Seth (after the war he reinvented himself as Dr Chartham, a pioneering sexologist).
 
Seth left entertaining accounts of his training, and these throw light on his extraordinary character and how SOE sought to prepare its agents. His mission was a failure: Seth was captured, interrogated by the Germans, and imprisoned. He claimed that he was saved from a public hanging by the failure to open at the last minute of the trapdoor on the scaffold.
 
From Tallinn, he was transferred to a succession of prisons in the Baltic and Germany and ended up in Paris with a mistress, where he trained to be a German secret agent. In the war's final months, he was taken to Berlin and entrusted with a mission to Britain sanctioned by Himmler.
 
Was he a prisoner who agreed to work for the Germans, or was he a double agent? 
 
Hard Cover With Dust Jacket
223 Pages
In Good Condition