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Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

by Basil Thomson
Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War
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Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

by Basil Thomson

Overview

Against the backdrop of World War One, and rising hysteria over German spies on the British home front, Basil Thompson was seconded from Scotland Yard to hunt, arrest and interrogate the potential German spies identified by the nascent British intelligence services. His is an extraordinary story of sleuthing and secrets during a time of war.

Basil Thomson was Assistant Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, which made him the head of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard. As head of CID, Thomson was involved in the arrests of suspected spies, suffragettes, Indian revolutionaries and Irish rebels.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849547970
Publisher: Biteback Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 10/06/2015
Series: Dialogue Espionage Classics Series
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Basil Thomson: Basil Thomson was Assistant Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, which made him the head of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard. As head of CID, Thomson was involved in the arrests of suspected spies, suffragettes, Indian revolutionaries and Irish rebels.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Preface

1. The detective in real life
2. The imaginative liar
3. The lure of something for nothing
4. The first days
5. The Special Branch
6. War crimes
7. The Germans and the Irish
8. The Casement case
9. Strange sideshows
10. The German spy
11. Muller and others
12. The hireling spy
13. The last executions
14. Some Americans
15. Women'spies
16. Curious visitors
17. The end of Rasputin
18. Recruits for the enemy
19. The decline of morale
20. The bogus princess
21. Footnotes to the peace conference
22. The royal unemployed
23. Unrest at home
24. Our communists
25. The return to sanity


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