In 1943, Colonel Tim Stephens of MI5 said of the story of Chapman: ‘In fiction it would be rejected as improbable.’ It is one of the most gripping untold stories of the Second World War. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty inside the villain was a hero the problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers, was to know where one ended, and the other began.

This was a man who courted contradictions as much as he courted adventure. Yet at the same time he was, in his own way, loyal to his lover and their child. He wore loud suits, drove fast cars, and had a woman in every port. Damian Lewis reads the dramatic story of the charismatic Agent Zigzag. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5s Agent Zigzag. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the. One December night during the Second World War, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. Genuinely courageous, able to withstand withering interrogations from both sides, Chapman was a dashing, charming and fiercely intelligent man whose talents led to a single end: breaking the rules. Ben Macintyre talks about his bestselling book Agent Zigzag, the true story of WWII double agent Eddie Chapman. He was also a secret spy for Britain, alias Agent Zigzag.Īgent Zigzag is the untold story of Britain’s most extraordinary wartime double agent. At the start of World War II, former British convict Eddie Chapman is recruited by the German secret service. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all.

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