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Memoirs of a spy : adventures along the eastern fronts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snowden, Nicholas, 1895- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Subjects:
Snowden, Nicholas, > 1895-
World War, 1914-1918 > Secret service > Austria.
Spies > Austria > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Eastern Front.
Prisoners of war > Austria > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Russia > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, Austrian.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, Hungarian.
Spies.
Prisoners of war.
Secret service.
Russia.
Austria.
Czechoslovakia.
World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service > Austria.
1914-1918
Eperjes (Hungary) > Prešov (Slovakia)
Personal narratives > Hungarian.
Personal narratives > Austrian.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • In school for Secret Service
  • My lonesome baptism of fire
  • Russian rubles for Russian plans
  • A reward and a youthful romance
  • In storm through the Carpathians
  • With a Russian outpost in the trenches
  • Into beleaguered Przemysl for Christmas
  • Secret-Service plot and counterplot
  • A second journey to Przemysl
  • Surrender ends a long siege
  • A woman spy and a rescue
  • Russian treachery and Russian disaster
  • Some soldier interludes, and the Kaiser.
  • Preparing for distant service
  • Captured, according to programme
  • A prisoner-of-war in Russia
  • A spy's life in Rostov-on-the-Don
  • Homeward bound through Roumania
  • Wounded and a prisoner with friends near
  • Safely through the lines
  • On the way to the Italian Front
  • In the torrent of revolution
  • I become a Bolshevik Army officer
  • Turmoil under the Red regime
  • Eight months a prisoner in Hungary
  • Preparing for the next war
  • Frontiers are not barriers!
  • Enduring new torments
  • Sentenced to death as a spy
  • Prison life and politics
  • Breathing the air of freedom
  • Farewell to the Secret Service.