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London Cage 1St Edition Free Download FREE LONDON CAGE 1ST EDITION PDF Helen Fry | 9780300231229 | | | | | The secrets of the London Cage | UK news | The Guardian Published by Evans Brothers Limited Seller Rating:. About this Item: Evans Brothers Limited, Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue dust jacket with yellow lettering over blue cloth. London Cage 1st edition pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Unclipped dust jacket London Cage 1st edition plastic cover. Mild wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Moderate tanning, staining and soiling to DJ. Seller Inventory GEO. More information about this seller Contact this seller 1. Published by Evans Bros, London About this Item: Evans Bros, London, Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, pp, illustrated,bound in black cloth with rubbed and creased dustwrapper in protective cover; Large Octavo. 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Pages London Cage 1st edition to London Cage 1st edition have small loss to corners, otherwise fine. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Moderate foxing. Very clean interior. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. About this Item: Evans. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Published by London Evans Brothers Limited Condition: good to very good. Brown paper wrappers in blue pictorial dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge of text-block, does not affect text. Minor chipping to London Cage 1st edition of dust jacket. Rare combination of proof copy in dust jacket. Interesting letter from publisher indicating advance copy loosely-tucked in front. Good to very good condition. Alexander Scotland left Scotland for Africa as a young man. It was there he learned German and made the acquaintance of a German officer of the local garrison. At the invitation of his friend, he served with the German Imperial Army from The knowledge he acquired there would form the basis of his espionage work during the following two world wars. He was arrested in by the Germans under suspicion of espionage and held in Windhoek for a year until it was liberated by the British. He then went to work as a spy on the Western Front, posing as an overseas German civilian-worker in Belgium. During the interwar, he toured Germany twice, earning an audience with Hitler in After war broke out again he was assigned with the B. In France, interrogating German P. He continued his duties from London after being evacuated at Dunkirk. The information he gathered was vital to the prosecution of several high-profile war criminals after the war. Item added to your basket View basket. Proceed to Basket. View basket. Continue shopping. Title: the london cage. Results 1 - 15 of United Kingdom. The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre by Helen Fry Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating London Cage 1st edition. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. After the war, high-ranking Nazi war criminals were housed in the Cage, revamped as an important center for investigating German war crimes. This riveting book London Cage 1st edition the full details of operations at the London Cage and subsequent efforts to hide them. Bringing dark secrets to light, this groundbreaking book at last provides an objective and complete history of the London Cage. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The London London Cage 1st editionplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. London Cage 1st edition order. Dec 24, Eric Lee rated it it was amazing Shelves: history. In the end, this is a book about morality. Located in Kensington Palace Gardens, it was closed down in For most of that time, it was a place that German prisoners of war passed through, where London Cage 1st edition were questioned, and valuable intelligence was gathered. From onwards, it collected evidence for use in war crimes trials. No one questions that the Cage, and its commanding offi In the end, this is a book about morality. No one questions that the Cage, and its commanding officer Colonel Alexander Scotland, did collect useful intelligence that helped the Allies win the war. And it is also clear that Colonel Scotland's team did excellent work in helping to prepared the cases that led London Cage 1st edition imprisonment, and sometimes hanging, of German Nazi war criminals in the years after The moral issue is that despite Colonel Scotland's insistence that everything done under his command was strictly in accord with the Geneva Convention, there is some evidence of mistreatment of some prisoners. There have been allegations of torture, and there were four suspicious deaths in custody at the London Cage. Helen Fry has done an outstanding job with this book, going deep into the archives to find new sources and to attempt to reconstruct what actually happened at the London Cage. Among her many interesting finds was the original, uncensored memoir by Colonel Scotland himself. The reputation of Colonel Scotland reminds me a bit of what happened with Arthur London Cage 1st edition Harris, who led the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. Harris clearly contributed to a successful conclusion of the war, though the tactics he employed -- which destroyed entire German cities -- proved embarrassing to some after the war. It took several decades, but eventually a statue London Cage 1st edition erected to Harris in London, and Bomber Command got its own memorial in Green Park. One wonders if some day Colonel Scotland will also be recognised for his contribution to victory. If that ever happens, this book will have made an important contribution to rediscovering the work he and his staff did in the London Cage. Dec 16, Giselle Jakobs rated it liked it Shelves: military-war-espionage. The article took the lid off London Cage 1st edition established that torture had been used at the London Cage. Cobain's follow-up book, Cruel Britannia pretty much put a nail in the coffin. Without a doubt, the London Cage, under the command of Lt. Alexander Scotland, had been the scene of hideous events against members of the German Army as well a The London Cage stormed into public view over 10 years ago when Ian Cobain published a provocative article in The Guardian - The Secrets of the London Cage. Alexander Scotland, had been the scene of hideous events against members of the German Army as well as Nazi officers. What more could be said about it? InHelen Fry tackled the subject in a full-length book. The write-up sounded promising. An excerpt from the inside cover of the book jacket tell us that: "Until now, what has happened at the London Cage has remained a secret closely guarded by the Home Office. This riveting book reveals the full details of operations there as well as the subsequent efforts to hide them. Helen Fry's extraordinary original research paints rich portraits of the interrogators and their prisoners, and gives disturbing, compelling accounts of daily life revolving around systemic Soviet-style mistreatment. Fry also provides sensational evidence to counter official denials concerning the use of 'truth drugs' and 'enhanced interrogation' techniques. Scotland, interrogators, "guests", interrogation methods, truth drugs and various war crimes carried out against Allied forces by the Nazis. London Cage 1st edition book is not arranged chronologically, so each chapter tends to jump around a fair bit in time and space, with the exception of the war crimes chapters which are relatively coherent.
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