A spy called Cynthia : and a life in intelligence / anonymous.

Publisher: London : Biteback Publishing, 2021Description: 160 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781785907128 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

23 327.12092

Summary: "Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed Cynthia, was a glamorous American socialite recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry and from the Italian and Vichy French embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets could provide her with vital intelligence, a practice in which she hardly ever failed, enabling her to secure first the French and then the Italian naval codes. In the landings in North Africa, she was credited with having saved the lives of hundreds of Allied soldiers." - Book cover

List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions Autumn 2021

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Loanable Book	Library	General Collection	327.12 SPY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000437068

"Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed Cynthia, was a glamorous American socialite recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry and from the Italian and Vichy French embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets could provide her with vital intelligence, a practice in which she hardly ever failed, enabling her to secure first the French and then the Italian naval codes. In the landings in North Africa, she was credited with having saved the lives of hundreds of Allied soldiers." - Book cover

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