Ben Macintyre Zitate

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

Ben Macintyre

Deutsche Übersetzung

"Der Mann, der nie war" von Ewen Montagu ist nach wie vor das beste Buch über Kriegsspionage, das von einem aktiven Teilnehmer geschrieben wurde - unvollständig und teilweise trocken - dennoch bringt es den Einfallsreichtum und die schiere Exzentrizität derer hervor, die dieses seltsame und gefährliche Spiel spielten .

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