By Ian Baxter
That includes 250 formerly unpublished motion images, this paintings bargains a hugely illustrated examine of the Waffen SS all through Europe.
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But on the second journey he had barely escaped with his life and the border was now so closely guarded by the Bolsheviks that it was almost impossible for couriers to get through. It was believed that his two most recent couriers had been captured and shot. The only other route out by land was to the south through the Baltic republics of Estonia and Latvia. But this area was now being fought over by the Red and White armies and security was even tighter than in the north as the Cheka, the dreaded Bolshevik secret police, hunted for deserters and infiltrators.
I would also like to thank: Commander Rodney Agar RN (retired), for his memories of his uncle; Phil Tomaselli, already well known to researchers in the history of espionage, who supplied the final part of the jigsaw by finding Paul Dukes’s private diaries; Dr John Fisher of UWE, Bristol and author of Gentleman Spies; Frances Welch, author of The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes; Sergey Gavrilov for his research in Finland and Russia into Peter Sokolov; Ann Trevor for her research in US archives; the Head of Security Department and several old friends at the Secret Intelligence Service; Francis M Newton, Jean Cowell, Daphne Porter, Lizzie Sanders and Roz Acland, who all contributed valiantly to my search for Laura Cade; Vin Callcut for sharing the memories of his father, CMB Motor Mechanic Horace G.
Lord Baden-Powell, who later founded the Boy Scout movement, was one such officer and he has left us a detailed account of his methods. Of course, Germany and other nations were doing exactly the same thing and in the pre-war years spies from both sides had been arrested while doing just this sort of work. But it was seen by all nations as simply one of the duties of a military officer – rather like their duty to escape from a POW camp – and those caught were usually let off with a small fine or the lightest of prison sentences.