She recounted the story of how British Intelligence in WWII conducted an extensive bugging of the quarters of captured German generals and other high ranking officers and in the process collecting an enormous amount of valuable intelligence. I heard the author on the History Extra Podcast discussing this book and the podcast was absolutely fascinating. This book was a great disappointment to me. She is a member of The Biographers’ Club, The Society of Authors and an Honorary member of The Association of Jewish Refugees. Helen is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Dept of Hebrew & Jewish Studies at University College London and Lecturer at the London Jewish Cultural Centre. Together they have written two novels of historical fiction and been in development on scripts with Green Gaia Films for a TV drama based on their novels. Helen has branched out into fiction with James Hamilton under the pseudonym JH Schryer. Her textbook Christian-Jewish Dialogue: A Reader has been translated into Russian, Czech and Polish. Her titles also include books on Christian-Jewish Dialogue. Other books by Helen include histories of various Anglo-Jewish communities, including The Lost Jews of Cornwall (with Keith Pearce) and The Jews of Exeter. Helen Fry has written numerous books on the Second World War with particular reference to the 10,000 Germans and Austrians who fought for Britain in the war. And so it was that the Allies got access to some of Hitler’s most closely guarded secrets-and from those most entrusted to protect them. On arrival at stately-homes-turned-prisons like Trent Park, high-ranking German generals and commanders were given a "phony" interrogation, then treated as "guests," wined and dined at exclusive clubs, and encouraged to talk. In this astonishing history, Helen Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging operation. This mission proved so effective that it would go on to be set up at three further sites-and provide the Allies with crucial insight into new technology being developed by the Nazis. A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler’s generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secretsĪt the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners’ cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private conversations.
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