Brixmis : The Untold Exploits of Britain's Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission

Tony Geraghty

ISBN 10: 0006386733 / ISBN 13: 9780006386735

Published by Harpercollins Publishers Okt 1997, 1997

About this Item

Neuware - For forty tense years of Cold War in Europe a team of British intelligence agents - from the three armed services, the SAS and the Foreign Office - working under diplomatic cover as 'liaison' officers, ranged like pirates through East Germany, in uniform and unarmed. Their target: the massive military strength assembled on German soil by the Soviets for a potential invasion of the West. These few men gathered a mass of military intelligence information; their efforts met with a violent Soviet response.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brixmis : The Untold Exploits of Britain's Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission
• Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Okt 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006386733
• ISBN 13: 9780006386735
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 130H x 28D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 130 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 400 grams

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Synopsis

This text presents the secrets of how British intelligence officers working undercover as liaison officers in East Germany stole advanced Soviet equipment and penetrated top-secret training areas. For 40 years the men from all three armed services, the SAS and the Foreign Office conducted an intelligence war against the massive Soviet military strength.

About the Author

Tony Geraghty, author of the SAS history ‘Who Dares Wins’, ‘The Bullet Catchers’ and ‘Beyond the Front Line’, is himself a military veteran, first with the Paras and then as a British officer in the Gulf conflict. As a liaison officer with US forces he was awarded an American decoration. He is also an Irish citizen.