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Author Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974, author.

Title Cover name: Dr. Rantzau / Nikolaus Ritter ; edited and translated by Katharine R. Wallace ; foreword by Mary Kathryn Barbier.

Publication Info. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Foreign military studies
Foreign military studies (Lexington, Ky.)
Note "The original German edition of this book was published as "Deckname Dr. Rantzau" (Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1972)"-- Title verso.
Summary "Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau is a gripping diary-like personal account of espionage during the Second World War and is one of very few historic memoirs written by an ex-Abwehr officer. Detailed is how Colonel Nikolaus Ritter, following a brief World War I career and over ten years as a businessman in America, returned to Germany in spring of 1935 and became Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr. He was assigned to establish a network of agents to gather information on British and US airfields, aircrafts, and state-of-the-art developments in the aerospace industry. Among others, Ritter's cover names were Dr. Rantzau and Dr. Reinhard in Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg, Dr. Jansen in Hungary, Dr. Renken in Germany, and Mr. Johnson in America. Throughout his service in the Abwehr, Ritter smuggled America's most jealously guarded secret, the Norden bombsight and the Sperry gyroscope, into Germany, and coordinated the planning for the invasion of the British Isles (Operation Sea Lion). Ritter was incarcerated by the British in 1945 and sent to the Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre. Katharine Ritter Wallace, the daughter of Col. Ritter, presents the first English translation of the German World War II memoir. With a combination of collected documents, correspondences, personal notes, communications with peers, and from memory, this captivating account by an espionage agent reveals an insider's glimpse of the German intelligence service and of a handler's expansive and diverse agent network"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Arthur Owens (aka Snow and Johnny) -- Dr. Rantzau -- The Abwehr -- Launching a network -- Orders from Admiral Canaris -- Departing for America -- New York -- Hermann Lang and the Norden bombsight -- Contacts in America -- Mr. X -- A close encounter -- Reconstructing the bombsight -- British agents in the Abwehr -- Lily Stein -- Ein Glas Bier -- Count László Almásy -- Sabotage across borders -- Border closings -- Sea rendezvous -- Operation Sea Lion -- Suspending Sea Lion -- Africa mission -- Desert devils -- End of war -- Reflections.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English translated from the original German.
Subject Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974.
Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974.
Germany. Wehrmacht. Amt Ausland/Abwehr -- Officers -- Biography.
Germany. Wehrmacht. Amt Ausland/Abwehr.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Spies -- Germany -- Biography.
Spies.
Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany.
Espionage, German -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Espionage, German.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Espionage, German -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain.
World War (1939-1945)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Wallace, Katharine R. (Katharine Ritter), 1934- editor, translator.
Barbier, Mary, author of foreword.
Added Title Deckname Dr. Rantzau. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019028110
Other Form: Print version: Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974. Deckname Dr. Rantzau. English. Cover name: Dr. Rantzau. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2019] 9780813177342 (DLC) 2019006675 (OCoLC)1066126539
ISBN 9780813177359 (electronic book)
0813177359 (electronic book)
9780813177342
0813177340
9780813177366
0813177367
Music No. EB00786229 Recorded Books