Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy

Nigel West,Madoc Roberts

ISBN 10: 1849540934 / ISBN 13: 9781849540933

Published by Biteback Publishing, 2011

About this Item

272 pages. ex-library book, SNOW is the codename assigned to Arthur Owens, the most important British d ouble agent in the early years of the Second World War. Described by Mi5 as a ty pical underfed Cardiff he type became the first of the great double-cross agents.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy
• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849540934
• ISBN 13: 9781849540933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

SNOW is the codename assigned to Arthur Owens, the most important  British double agent in the early years of the Second World War. Described by Mi5 as a typical underfed Cardiff he type became the first of the great double-cross agents who were to play a major part in Britain's victory over the Germans. When the stakes could not have been higher, MI5 sought to build a double-cross system based on the shifting loyalties of a duplicitous, philandering and vain anti-hero who was boastful and brave, reckless and calculating, ruthless and mercenary... but patriotic. Or was he?

Based on hundreds of secret Mi5 files, meticulous research and for the first time, the testimony of his family. Snow reveals the truth about an extraordinary man whose messages were used to make the first break through in the german Enigma codes at Bletchley Park and whose daughter went on to become a Hollywood film star.

About the Authors

Nigel West is an author specializing in security, intelligence, the secret service, and espionage.
Madoc Roberts is a director, producer, and film editor.

About the Author

Nigel West is the pen name of Rupert Allason, a military historian and author specialising in intelligence and security issues. He is European Editor of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence. He was awarded the first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers and was voted 'the experts' expert' by a panel of spy writers selected by The Observer. Madoc Roberts has worked in television for thirty years. He is managing director of Barkingmad TV and as a producer and director has made history programmes for Channel 4, Channel 5, Discovery and the History Channel. As an editor he has worked on feature films and made award-winning programmes for all the major networks including Timewatch for BBC 2 and Time Team for Channel 4. He was also the main editor on the long-running BBC 2 series Private Life of a Masterpiece. In the 1970s he was lead singer with The Tunnelrunners. He now lives in Cardiff with his wife, the artist Susan Roberts.