The spy with 29 names
Subtitle: the story of the Second World War's most audacious double agent
By: Jason Webster
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780099578246
Subjects: Secret service; World War, 1939-1945
Other titles: Spy with twenty-nine names; Story of the Second World War's most audacious double agent
Description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist - and 24 other names. He tricked Hitler over D-Day. He was the greatest double agent in history. But who, exactly, was Juan Pujol? Using his intimate knowledge of Spain and his skills as a crime novelist, Jason Webster tells for the first time the full true story of the character who captured the imagination in Ben Macintyre's Double Cross. He tells of Pujol's early life in Spain, his determination to fight totalitarianism -and his strange journey from German spy to MI5. Working for the British, whom he saw as the exemplars of freedom and democracy, he created a bizarre fictional network of spies - 29 of them - that misled the entire German high command, including Hitler himself.
Notes: Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.