Free Download Hard Lying: An Intelligence Officer on the Levantine Shore 1914-19 by Lewen Weldon
English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1780601999 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.9 MB
First published in 1926, Weldon was mapping the deserts of Egypt when war broke out. Working from out of a steam yacht based on Port Said or Famagusta, he ran a network of spies and confidential agents onto the Levant coast behind Turkish lines. He was a fluent Arabic speaker and could conduct personal interviews on the shore, as well as landing and taking off agents – all conveyed by small boats through the surf under the cover of night.
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