Hornet's Sting Cl

by Ryan,Mark

• ISBN13: 9781602397101
• ISBN10: 1602397104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

The exploits of Tommy Sneum, the Danish-born spy who died in 2007, made him a legend in espionage circles. But until now, the full extraordinary story of Sneum's action-packed career as a British-run spy has never been told. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made an incredible escape from Denmark in a battered old Hornet Moth aircraft - which he had to refuel in mid-air by climbing out on the wing. Later, he escaped from Denmark again - by walking across a treacherous frozen sea on which two of his companions died. Tommy brought over precious intelligence about the Nazi radar installations in Denmark and their atom bomb - his reward was to be imprisoned in Brixton as a suspected double agent and threatened with execution. He cheated the hangman - but it is only with the publication of this enthralling book that Sneum can be celebrated as, in the words of Professor R.V. Jones, Churchill's chief of scientific intelligence, 'one of the true heroes of World War II'.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. x
Maps	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
The Tightrope to Radar	p. 7
Trapped	p. 18
Himmler and the Longbow	p. 25
A Taste of Freedom	p. 31
On Location	p. 38
Flight Plan	p. 45
The Jigsaw Puzzle	p. 52
A Close Shave	p. 61
Take-Off	p. 68
Up Close and Personal	p. 74
Wing-Walker	p. 81
The Welcome	p. 88
Disbelief	p. 93
Sending for the Doctor	p. 99
The Spymaster	p. 108
SIS, SOE and a Strained Marriage	p. 115
Spy School	p. 126
A Recipe for Disaster	p. 134
Into Action	p. 140
A Fragile Foothold	p. 146
Bed Manners	p. 153
The Threat	p. 160
Meet the Wife	p. 167
Brothers in Arms	p. 173
History-Makers	p. 178
Infighting	p. 186
Christmas Horrors	p. 193
Hunted	p. 199
Bohr's Bombshell	p. 205
London Beckons	p. 213
Trek to the Unknown	p. 218
Closing In	p. 226
Surrounded	p. 233
Defiance and Loyalty	p. 239
Living on the Edge	p. 247
Walking with Ghosts	p. 252
Spilling the Beans	p. 261
The Gamble	p. 267
The Consequences	p. 272
The Ordeal	p. 277
A Diplomatic Incident	p. 287
Smear Campaign	p. 293
Powerless	p. 297
A New Betrayal	p. 304
All's Fair in Love and War	p. 310
When Life is Too Short	p. 314
The Accident	p. 321
Rewards and Memories	p. 328
Coming Home	p. 336
Epilogue: The Hornet's Sting	p. 343
Notes	p. 358
Index	p. 374
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