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In the past, I’ve written about spies and translations and just recently I bought a book in which both interests converge: Die verrätherischen Plane Englands und der Jakobiner wider das Leben des Kaysers, und die Freyheit des franz. Volks (1804), an account of an anti-Napoleon British spy ring based in Europe. The author, Jean-Claude-Hippolyte Méhée de la […]

I’ve always liked books like this which were never intended to be sold; they often make  fascinating reading.  This one, from 1920s Berlin, entitled simply ‘Spitzel-Almanach.  Unverkäuflich …’ (‘Spy Almanac.  Not for sale’) and bound in plain paper wrappers, was an internal publication of the German Communist Party and gives details of all the known spies and […]