Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest

By Ralph Harvey

This is the true story of the life of WW2 spy & opera singer, Margery Booth, a mezzo-soprano from Wigan, Lancashire who was to later marry powerful German Industrialist Her Strohm. She captured the hearts of all who heard her sing, in fact Adolph Hitler himself was so taken with her that he invited her to join him, at his infamous stronghold, the Eagle's Nest.Her ability to move freely within the higher echelons of Germany's leaders, made her an obvious candidate for recruitment by MI6 secret services, and in the years leading towards the war began she managed obtain a vast sum of important information, and in due course became affectionately known to her controllers at MI6 as 'the knicker spy'.In the period following the war she was Instrumental in the convictions of Lord Haw-Haw and John Amery, yet her heroic spying exploits were never to be acknowledged by her country, nor was to receive any medals for her services. This then, is the account of her heroic deeds, including the tale of how she got her infamous nickname.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549918915
• ISBN13: 9781549918919
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"