
Agent Extraordinary
MARTELLI, George
The Story of Michel Hollard. [With a Foreword by Sir Brian Horrocks].
Published: Collins, 1960
Stock code: 25285
Price: £30.00
8vo., First Edition, with plates and 3 maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail, and lightly browned at backstrip.
Among his many other achievements, Hollard was the first agent to provide British Intelligence with detailed drawings of a V1 launching site. Captured after some one hundred secret missions, he survived Neuengamme to become known as 'the man who saved London'. Enser, p.399