Agent Garbo : the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day / Stephan Talty.

Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich--and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued...

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Main Author: Talty, Stephan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. The Making of a Spy
  • 1. Tom Mix in Barcelona
  • 2. The Training Ground
  • 3. Araceli
  • 4. The white city 5. The Game
  • 6. The Snakepit
  • Pt. II. Garbo's Rise
  • 7. A Fresh Riot of Ideas
  • 8. The System
  • 9. The Debut
  • 10. The Blacks and the Santa Clauses
  • 11. The Rehearsal
  • Pt. III. The Far Shore
  • 12. The Dry Run
  • 13. An Intimate Deception
  • 14. Haywire
  • 15. The Interloper
  • 16. The Ghost Army
  • 17. The Backdrop
  • 18. The Build-Up
  • 19. The Prisoner
  • 20. The Hours
  • 21. The Weapon
  • Pt. IV. Breakoff
  • 22. The End
  • 23. The Return.