Nigel Jones

The one-man spy factory who changed history

A review of Jason Webster’s The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent. Few spies made a bigger difference to the course of the Second World War than Juan Pujol, aka Agent Garbo

A document relating to the double-agent Garbo - whose messages helped to deceive the Germans about the location and timing of the D-Day landings [PA Archive/Press Association Images]

  • The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent

    Jason Webster

    Chatto, pp. 322

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