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The Red Orchestra was the name given by German Military intelligence to the Soviet spy-rings active in Western Europe during the Second World War. Directed by Leopold Trepper, and performing in concert with a series of talented and adventurous 'pianists' (radio-operators), the orchestra foretold the invasion of Russia, warned of the V,I almost a year before it came into service and - according to Admiral Canaris, head of the Abwehr-inflicted losses on Hitler's eastern armies amounting to two hundred thousand dead. The account of Trepper's own adventures makes one of the greatest modern spy stories. An exceptionally lucid and resourceful agent, he suffered the agony of seeing much of his best information ignored by Moscow, while credence was given to 'pianists' who had gone over to the enemy. His capture, effected as he sat in a dentist's chair, was a triumph for the German security service: but one ever dared tell Reichsfuhrer Himmler of the spy-chief's subsequent escape from a chemists shop while purchasing a painkiller for one of his interrogators. Early in 1945 Trepper returned to Moscow, a man dangerously familiar with Stalin's errors of judgment. he disappeared from Western eyes and would perhaps never have been traced but for Gilles Perrault's decision to embark on this remarkable book. Hardback Ed with Dust Jacket 1967
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