Russell Miller
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Russell Miller was born in 1938 in London and now lives in High Wycombe. He is the author of ten previous books and currently writes for The Mail on Sunday. His journalism has won many awards, including Writer of the Year by the Society of British Magazine Editors.
Werken van Russell Miller
Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency (1997) 121 exemplaren
Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War's Most Extraordinary Double Agent (2004) 28 exemplaren
The Clipper Ships 1 exemplaar
La deuxième guerre mondiale 12 volumes - éditions Time Life - le front russe la guerre aérienne en… 1 exemplaar
Las Fuerzas aéreas soviéticas 1 exemplaar
Grandes épocas de la aviación. 37 1 exemplaar
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As a personal biography, this is excellent. It gives a real sense of the person, his background before the war and his simple motivation for just what a complex path he ended up taking between the various factions: three Yugoslav groups, the British, the Americans and even the internal feuds within the different German military and security services.
The most surprising aspect was his time in the US, of which I'd not heard before, including some clear indications of a likely attack on Pearl Harbour. Famously this was not acted on, and the question of whether that was due to accident, Hoover's bigotry, or a deliberate plot on the Coventry model still remains open.
Sadly the book did fall down a little when it came to D-Day. It's hardly mentioned. Popov's part in the build-up is clear, but what happened afterwards? Did his Abwehr handler realise that they had been duped? How did they react? This is skipped over so lightly that it's hard to say where in the book's chronology D-Day even took place.
The focus of the later part of the book switches to Popov's friend and Abwehr colleague (or co-conspirator), Johnny Jebsen. After surviving through most of the war, despite also working as a double-agent, he was arrested in 1945 and disappeared into a concentration camp.
Overall this is a very good book. But the handling of D-Day is lacking and does leave something of a gap. I'd also love to read another book of this level on the intelligence position regarding Pearl Harbour, and how that came to have so little effect on any response to the attack.… (meer)