TY  - GEN
T1  - Cover name: Dr. Rantzau
T2  - Foreign military studies (Lexington, Ky.)
A1  - Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974
A2  - Wallace, Katharine R. (Katharine Ritter), 1934-
A2  - Wallace, Katharine R. (Katharine Ritter), 1934-
A2  - Barbier, Mary
LA  - English
LA  - German
PP  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1090397243
AB  - "Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau is a gripping diary-like personal account of espionage during the Second World War and is one of very few historic memoirs written by an ex-Abwehr officer. Detailed is how Colonel Nikolaus Ritter, following a brief World War I career and over ten years as a businessman in America, returned to Germany in spring of 1935 and became Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr. He was assigned to establish a network of agents to gather information on British and US airfields, aircrafts, and state-of-the-art developments in the aerospace industry. Among others, Ritter's cover names were Dr. Rantzau and Dr. Reinhard in Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg, Dr. Jansen in Hungary, Dr. Renken in Germany, and Mr. Johnson in America. Throughout his service in the Abwehr, Ritter smuggled America's most jealously guarded secret, the Norden bombsight and the Sperry gyroscope, into Germany, and coordinated the planning for the invasion of the British Isles (Operation Sea Lion). Ritter was incarcerated by the British in 1945 and sent to the Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre. Katharine Ritter Wallace, the daughter of Col. Ritter, presents the first English translation of the German World War II memoir. With a combination of collected documents, correspondences, personal notes, communications with peers, and from memory, this captivating account by an espionage agent reveals an insider's glimpse of the German intelligence service and of a handler's expansive and diverse agent network"--
NO  - "The original German edition of this book was published as "Deckname Dr. Rantzau" (Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1972)"--Title verso
CN  - D810.S8 R5713 2019eb
SN  - 9780813177359
SN  - 0813177359
SN  - 9780813177342
SN  - 0813177340
SN  - 9780813177366
SN  - 0813177367
KW  - Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, : 1899-1974.
KW  - Germany. : Wehrmacht. : Amt Ausland/Abwehr : Officers : Biography.
KW  - Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, : 1899-1974
KW  - Germany. : Wehrmacht. : Amt Ausland/Abwehr
KW  - Spies : Germany : Biography.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Secret service : Germany.
KW  - Espionage, German : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Espionage, German : Great Britain : History : 20th century.
KW  - Espions : Allemagne : Biographies.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Service secret : Allemagne.
KW  - Espionnage allemand : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Espionnage allemand : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Historical.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Western.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Military.
KW  - Armed Forces : Officers
KW  - Espionage, German
KW  - Secret service
KW  - Spies
KW  - Germany
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -