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The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum Hardback - 2009

by Mark Ryan

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Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made an incredible escape from Denmark in a battered old Hornet Moth aircraft - which he had to refuel in mid-air by climbing out on the wing. Later, he escaped from Denmark again - by walking across a treacherous frozen sea on which two of his companions died. Tommy brought over precious intelligence about the Nazi radar installations in Denmark and their atom bomb - his reward was to be imprisoned in Brixton as a suspected double agent and threatened with execution.

He cheated the hangman - but it is only with the publication of this enthralling book that Sneum can be celebrated as, in the words of Professor R.V. Jones, Churchill's chief of scientific intelligence, 'one of the true heroes of World War II'.

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  • Title The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum
  • Author Mark Ryan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Skyhorse Publishing, New York
  • Publication date 2009-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781602397101 / 1602397104
  • Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.24 x 1.32 in (23.01 x 15.85 x 3.35 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Denmark - History - German occupation,, Sneum, Thomas
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009006210
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2009, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 03/15/2009, Page 112

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