Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

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Frank Foley helped thousands of Jews escape from Germany. At the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, he was described as a 'Scarlet Pimpernel', risking his own life to save those threatened with death by the Nazis. However, he remains virtually unknown, largely because his job as Passport Control Officer in Berlin was a cover for his real role as MI6 'Head of Station' in the German capital. Foley was a British spy, a fact that made his efforts on behalf of the Jews even more dangerous. He had no diplomatic immunity and was liable to arrest at any time. He not only went into the concentration camps to get Jews out but hid them in his own home, helped them to get forged passports and ignored the rules to provide them with visas for Palestine. It is estimated that he saved tens of thousands of people from the Holocaust. In this extraordinary book, bestselling author Michael Smith uncovers a remarkable man and tells his story with characteristic intelligence and humanity.

Michael Smith featured on BBC Radio'sToday, discussing Foley; The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews. Listen here.

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'One of the great heroic figures of the Holocaust, equal at least to Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg.' - Jerusalem Post; 'A fascinating book. Smith writes well: coolly and unexaggeratedly, sensibly and authoritatively' - Alan Judd, Daily Telegraph; 'Gripping. An outstanding book. The last word on the Final Solution' - Phillip Knightley, Mail on Sunday; 'Crisp and informative. Very effectively conveys the atmosphere of cumulative danger experienced by Jews in Germany under the Nazis.' - The Times; 'A reminder that goodness can triumph over evil.' - Daily Mail

Author Bio

Michael Smith is the bestselling author of Station X. He served in the British Army's Intelligence Corps and was an award-winning journalist for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times. Smith is the author of a number of books, including The Secrets of Station X, and Six: The Real James Bonds, and is the editor of The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader. His latest book, The Debs of Bletchley Park (Aurum Press, 2015), recounts the lives of the women who worked at Britain's Second World War code-breaking centre. He is currently writing a detective novel set in Nazi Germany. He lives near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.