Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

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Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time.
Game of Spies tells the story of a lethal spy triangle in Bordeaux between 1942 and 1944 and of Frances greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader Andre Grand-clement.

The story centres on three men: one British, one French and one German and the duel they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually as they would a bottle of wine. It is a story of SOE, treachery, bed-hopping and executions in the city labelled la plus collaboratrice in the whole of France.

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Fascinating and fast moving Literary Review

Praise for The Cruel Victory:

A powerful account of an extraordinary story. The Times

A fine account. 5*, Daily Telegraph

Paddy Ashdown has produced not only the most thorough history to date of the Resistance in the Vercors, but also the startling new contention that, The Germans did not win on the Vercors. They lost. Written with pace, the detail is fine and Ashdown is well-placed to write this book, which requires an understanding of military strategy, diplomacy and political shenanigans, as well as old fashioned story telling skill. Spectator

Praise for A Brilliant Little Operation:

The story of Operation Frankton is an extreme example of a plan brilliantly conceived and badly botched. The ten commandos who made a secret canoe raid in 1942 on German merchant ships have become icons of British wartime derring-do. The Times

No doubt many more books will be written about the war, but I hope this becomes a model for them since, though the heroism of our boys is stirring stuff, history only makes real sense if you can see it from all sides. Daily Telegraph

Paddy Ashdown has sifted the facts from the myths to write a fascinating and very personal account. Independent

It moves at the pace of a thriller and its real Nick Ferrari, Sunday Express

Ashdowns insights and his extensive research in an impressive range of archives will ensure that yet another work on the subject will not be required in the foreseeable future. Times Literary Supplement

Author Bio

After service as a Royal Marine Commando Officer and a commander of a Special Boat Service unit in the Far East, Paddy Ashdown served as a diplomat in the Foreign Office before, in due course, being elected as the Member of Parliament for Yeovil, serving in that capacity from 1983 to 2001. In 1988 he became leader of the Liberal Democrats, standing aside after eleven years of leading his Party. Later he was appointed as the international communitys High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 2002 to 2006. He is the author of many books, including A Brilliant Little Operation which won the British Army Military History prize for 2013.