The tangled web;

By Philippe Ganier-Raymond and ganier raymond

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0213762889
• ISBN13: 9780213762889
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publishers: Pantheon, NY
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Reveals the SOE ops in Holland

If you have read Leo Marks "Between Silk and Cyanide", then this story is a god send. It tells the story of Giskes and the caught agents. I am very grateful that this story was written.

Excellent book on topic of Allied agents in WW2 Holland

This is an excellent book on the history of Allied agents infiltrated into WWII occupied Holland from England. Each agent was given a "security check" -- a "mistake" the agent was given to include in each morse radio message back to England. The absence of the "mistake" would signify to England that the agent had been captured and was sending messages under duress. In March 1942, agent Hubertus Lauwers was captured and forced to signal under duress. Following his training, he omitted his security check. England failed to notice the omission and continued sending new agents to meet Lauwers. Each new agent, of course, was captured. Lauwers even risked his life to send the word "CAUGHT" and on a later occasion "WORKED BY JERRY SINCE MARCH SIXTH." The British, through negligence and over-work, remained oblivious to these clear indications that Lauwers had been captured, for two years. All agents or information sent to him were captured by the Germans as well. This resulted in the capture and death of dozens of agents and partisans.