My adventures as a German secret agent

By Horst von der Goltz

A secret agent speaks in his own voice, but the record around him refuses to remain merely personal. This first-person spy memoir enters the concealed machinery of German diplomacy and espionage during the period surrounding the Great War, where obedience to national policy can demand deception, political manipulation and the crossing of legal boundaries. The narrator recounts international covert work from inside governmental and military circles, exposing a world in which patriotism and divided loyalties are never easily separated. One operation turns towards the Welland Canal, where plans for sabotage threaten American neutrality and place clandestine action against international consequence. Elsewhere, the impersonation of a Russian prince becomes another instrument in the pursuit of diplomatic information. Rather than arranging such episodes as a simple sequence of exploits, the narrative keeps attention on the unstable ground beneath them: who commands, who complies, and how far an agent may go when secrecy transforms policy into action. Official papers, testimony, letters and telegrams give the political adventure an unusual documentary texture, setting the narrator's account beside the purported evidence of espionage. That interplay between personal recollection and documentary record sharpens the work's central ambiguities without resolving them, leaving claims, loyalties and justifications open to scrutiny. It is a secret agent memoir shaped as both international adventure and an examination of the methods hidden behind public diplomacy. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9378415881
• ISBN13: 9789378415883
• Release Date: March 2027
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"