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The Hornet's sting

book by Mark Ryan

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The hornet's sting (English)
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The amazing untold story of Second World War spy Thomas Sneum (English)
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2008
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Mysterious towers had suddenly been erected where pine trees met sand dunes on his native island of Fanoe. (English)
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And so, on this particular summer's day, he had climbed Kikkebjerg - 'Lookout Hill' - not far from the German base. He was trying to monitor the installation through a powerful pair of binoculars, and make sure the coast was clear ... (English)
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They noticed that a Hornet Moth was registered to a lieutenant in the Army Reserve named Poul Andersen, who owned a dairy farm called Elseminde near Odense on the island of Fyn. (English)
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They lived in a leafy boulevard called Noekkerosevej, situated far from the capital's busy centre. Tommy figured that even Christophersen could stay out of trouble here. (English)
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When the police hammered on the door of Carl Jensen's third-floor flat at 2 Harald Jensensgade, it was Else Sneum they wanted to question. (English)
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Before he knew it, though, the red light came on to indicate that they were flying over the drop-zone at Agerup, near Roskilde, just thirty kilometres west of Copenhagen. (English)
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He had met Goering and even acted as a translator for him a couple of years earlier, when Hitler's trusted ally had visited Avnoe, the Danish air base where Sneum was stationed. (English)
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For a spy in Copenhagen, the location of the St Annaegade lair was ideal. (English)
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It took place at the Jaegersborg Kaserne in Kongens, barracks that were home to the Royal Lifeguards. Over dinner, Lunding, the hard man of Danish Intelligence, demanded Sneum's British codes. (English)
 
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