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An edition of The making of a spy (2010)

The making of a spy

memoir of a German boy soldier turned American Army intelligence agent

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"Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 17-year-old Gerhardt Thamm arrived in America in 1948 with little more than his American birth certificate. With minimal command of English and little formal education, he enlisted in the Army and found himself assigned to operations where his German language abilities were put to use"--Provided by publisher.

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McFarland & Co., Publishers
Language
English

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Subjects

United States, German Americans, Biography, Intelligence officers, History, United States. Army Security Agency, Secret service, Military intelligence, United states, army, biography, Intelligence officers, biography, Secret service, united states, German americans

People

Gerhardt B. Thamm (1930-)

Places

United States, Germany (West)

Times

20th century
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The making of a spy: memoir of a German boy soldier turned American Army intelligence agent
2010, McFarland & Co., Publishers
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Table of Contents

A man for all seasons
Words of wisdom
A note about names
Prologue
A man called Trenker
Scared as hell
Riding the rollercoaster
Boy soldier
Strangers in our own land
Life in post-World War II Germany
Black market days
America at last
You're in the Army now
War
Once again
Assignment : the U.S. Army general school
Germany, here I come
Something special
The visit
Every man has a price
Tattered cloak and rusty dagger
Doktor Hermann and Georg Trenker
The transformation
Special operations team number three (Specops 3)
Special tasks
German automobile license plates
Special tasks
the proprietary
Special tasks
the proprietary 2
Nosy old lady
Close call
Special tasks
the proprietary 3
On the streets of Berlin
Not quite according to the rules
Ceramics?
Problem in the floor wax business
Contact lost
Code name: "The Shepherd"
Another busy day in Berlin
Reorganization : the new boss
Wasted effort
The last Christmas in Silesia
New task
Build a bolt-hole
Life is a gamble
End tour of duty
Trust, and the bad apple
Order, counterorder
The later years
Postscript.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Jefferson, N.C
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.0092, B
Library of Congress
UB271.U52 T47 2010, UB271.U52T47 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24040056M
ISBN 13
9780786448548
LCCN
2010002126
OCLC/WorldCat
463284111

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