Secrets in a Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War

by Melanie King

Book Overview

How did German intelligence agents in the First World War use dead fish to pass on vital information to their operatives? What did an advertisement for a dog in The Times have to do with the movement of British troops into Egypt? And why did British personnel become suspicious about the trousers hanging on a Belgian woman's washing line?During the First World War, spymasters and their networks of secret agents developed many ingenious - and occasionally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851242600
• ISBN13: 9781851242603
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 6.7"