Ian Colvin Knihy

The biography explores the life of Wilhelm Franz Canaris, the chief of German military intelligence who courageously opposed Hitler and paid the ultimate price for his resistance. It details Canaris's significant actions against the Nazi regime, including attempts to thwart Hitler's expansionist plans and his role in establishing a spy network in Spain. The narrative is enriched with chapters on his ambitions, operations, and conspiracies, culminating in his execution for treason. This edition also features a new biography of the author.

An accessible and vividly written wartime mystery story. New introduction and notes from private papers reveal hitherto suppressed facts on top secret sources drawn on by the author.

The Unkown Courier tells the true story of the events that inspired Ben MacIntyre's bestselling Operation Mincemeat. When British Intelligence mislead German High Command by planting a corpse with false top secret plans, it achieved one of the greatest wartime deceptions in history and changed the course of World War Two.