"Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British. The Germans awarded him the Iron Cross, Germany s highest military decoration, and paid him 2.5 million in today s money. In reality Silver deceived the Nazis on behalf of the Soviets and the British. In 1942 the Russians decided to share Silver with the British, the only time during the war that the Soviets agreed to such an arrangement. This brought him under the control of Peter Fleming who acted as his spy master. Germans also gave Silver a transmitter which broadcast misleading military information directly to Abwehr headquarters in Berlin. Silver was one of many codenames for a man whose real name was Bhagat Ram Talwar, a Hindu Pathan from the North West Frontier province of then British India. Between 1941 and 1945 Silver made twelve trips from Peshawar to Kabul to supply false information to the Germans, always making the near-200-mile journey on foot over mountain passes and hostile tribal territory.
Once when an Afghan nearly rumbled him, he invited him to a curry meal in which he had mixed deadly tiger s whiskers killing the Afghan. """
By:
Mihir Bose
Imprint: FONTHILL
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 654g
ISBN: 9781781553718
ISBN 10: 1781553718
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 May 2017
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
The Remarkable Pathan; A Rebel is Born; Learning Politics from a Bullock; The Stagehand Becomes the Main Actor; The Road to Kabul; Seeking Stalin Finding Hitler; The Italian Job; Hitler, The Faqir and the Nazi Intrigues; The Phantom Italian Spy; Moscow Calling; Taking the Nazis for a Ride; More Nazi Loot in Kabul; Russias gift to Britain; Silvers Moscow Centre; Britains Man; A Very Special Sahib; The Problem with Mary and Oliver; Silver and the new Great Game; Now We Have Five; Back to the Beginning; Epilogue-The Unsolved Mystery; Acknowledgements; Appendices, Timeline, Money given to Silver by the Axis powers, British Guide to Good Mullahs, Main Characters, Codes used in the Silver Operation by the British.
Mihir Bose, the first BBC sports editor, has written for all the major British papers including the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. An award winning author and journalist he has won: Business Columnist of the Year, Sports Reporter of the Year and Sports Story of the Year. His History of Indian cricket was the first Indian cricket book to win the Cricket Society Literary Award. Loughborough University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for outstanding contribution to journalism and promotion of equality. His 29 books range from biography and history through business and sport and the only narrative history of Bollywood.
Reviews for Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis: The Most Remarkable Agent of the Second World War
Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis is the gripping, true-life story of the East Indian spy Bhagat Ram Talwar, codename Silver - the only quintuple spy of the Second World War... A handful of vintage black-and-white photographs, endnotes, and a bibliography round out this fascinating, in-depth portrait of a master manipulator. Highly recommended, especially for public and college library biography and espionage history shelves. -- (10/01/2017)
