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This book is being released via BookCrossing on 5 March 2011 as part of the inaugural World Book Night. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.

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To be handed out in the days following World Book Night

Picked up at the Riverside Inn meet last night. Thank you!

Hey, I loved this book... but I'm not quite sure why I liked it so much! Didn't realise until I started it that it's a biography - I think the only non-fiction WBN book.

Agent Zigzag was a bit of a lad, to say the least, but the story is very engaging. Or it could just be that Ben MacIntyre is an excellent writer... I'll certainly look out for more books by him.

I was struck by how complimentary MacIntyre is about 'the British chaps' involved with Zigzag... all except the one near the end. But see quote by Goring below! Hard to say any more about the book without introducing spoilers.

Reserved until I find out if Chamonix44 would like it next.

Reichsmarschall Herman Goring, Head of the Luftwaffe, was particularly infuriated by the persistent little Mosquito; the mere mention of the plane could send him into a rage. 'It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito,' he once ranted. 'I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed that they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked.'

Whilst on holiday in Essex, recently, I was given this World Book Night title by BookAmbler. I was so delighted to get a chance to read this. It is my way of taking part in WBN by reading and journalling the books. Now thanks to BookAmbler, (booktwitcher, the original giver of this book), KatrinaT and Ardachy, I have come home with quite a few WBN titles to keep me going for a while!
After I have read this book I will be lending out to members of my church congregation here in The Netherlands!

Just popped in to say that I will start reading this book today. I have now managed to read 20 WBN books. So it's going well. Still got 4 more, (in my possession), to read, including this one, but I haven't been able to get hold of Cloud Atlas yet!

Just finished this book. I found it very interesting. Eddie Chapman was a very brave man. The book makes it seem like he had a really good time being a double agent during WW2, with lots of money & a girlfriend in each country! I'm sure there must have been some really scary times too. Anyway, he was somewhat of a hero.
He was a thief before he became a spy for Germany, and then Britain, but he was always loyal to the people in his life.
After the war he went back to crime, but, although he was caught a few times, he was never imprisoned for those later crimes because it was always mentioned what he had done for Britain during the war.
A nice ending to my review is a quote from the book, page 317, "John Masterman once wrote...........War brought out in Chapman an obstinate conscience. His vices were as extreme as his virtues, and to the end of his life, it was never clear whether he was on the side of the angels or the devils, whether he deceived the deceivers, or whether he had made a pact with his German spymaster. He died of heart failure in 1997, at the age of eighty-three: he may have ascended heavenwards; or perhaps he headed in the opposite direction. He is probabably zigzagging still."

I will now try to lend this book out to members of my church congregation.
21 WBN books now read. I'm about to start on number 22, "Beloved".

Amazon Editorial Review
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero.

After our church service today, we all went into our coffee hut, and I handed this book to BlairACharles , (bookcrossing user ID), as he expressed an interest in reading this biography.

I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did, Blair!

Fascinating insight into the true world of espionage. Although one of the characters mentioned in the book was Ian Fleming, it is obvious that he drew little inspiration from the true world of espionage when he wrote James Bond. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone else who enjoys modern history wrapped up in a good book.

Today, after our Anglican church service in Goor, Blair returned this book to me. It will now go back into my WBN book box to be lent out to others. Thanks Blair!!

I'm having a get-together with expat friends,and lots of them want to read the WBn books This book is going to Belgium with Susan. I will stand over her soon and make her write a journal entry, otherwise we might never get one! Since there is a computer here....why not?

Gonna take this book back home with me and give it a go. Thanks Nicole. I will try to join this site maybe.

Thank you Nicole for getting me back into reading. I loved this book. I could hardly believe what I was reading. It seems almost anyone could have been a spy for the other side and their plans were all slapdash! It opened my eyes to lots of surprises about what went on during the war! I am giving this book back to Nicole right now as I am here in her house!

Thanks Susan for coming today, thanks for trying and succeeding in reading this book, and thank you for making a journal entry even though I stood over you while you did it!
This book might just go out with someone else again today as I have a house full of expats! Our monthly meeting!

Sorry I'm so late with these release notes, but I was a bit overwhelmed with having so many books come back to me, and go out at the same time in April. Anyway, on April 21st this book went home with Lies from Almelo. I don't think Lies will make a JE unless I am with her to help her. So it probably won't be until after the book is read.

Hello everyone. This was very good book. I found it very interesting to read. In a way, Eddie made his job seem glamorous, although it was dangerous. He lived in luxury at times with all that money.

I received this book today, and it is now back in my 2011 World Book Night Book Box. However, I will be retiring this 2011 box for a while as I want to promote the books in my 2012 WBN book box. I do not have all the titles yet, but I do have quite a few of them. The others are proving very difficult to get hold of. So, until all my 2012 books are out with new readers, this book will be having a rest!

Time to release this book.

Hallo daar, gelukkige vinder!
Wat leuk dat je op deze pagina bent komen kijken. Als je dit leest, heb je een boek gevonden, zomaar een onverwacht kadootje van mij voor jou... Veel plezier ermee! Hierbij trouwens wat spelregels mbt bookcrossing:

1. Het zou fijn zijn als je meldt dat het veilig bij jou is. Dat mag gewoon in het Nederlands.
2. Daarna kun je het boek gaan lezen en als je wilt nog eens schrijven wat je ervan vond.
3. Mag het boek verder reizen, geef het dan door aan iemand anders, of laat het zomaar ergens weer achter, liefst op een veilige, droge plek. Je kunt via de bookcross-site ook weer melden waar je het hebt neergelegd, zodat anderen ernaar op zoek kunnen gaan...
TIP: Als je het boek op zijn reis wilt volgen, dan kun je je het beste aanmelden als nieuwe bookcrosser (www.bookcrossing.com). Het is erg leuk om erachter te komen hoe het met 'jouw' boek op z'n reis verder gaat!!
Ik zou het erg leuk vinden als je mij chamonix44 dan opgeeft als referent. Voor Nederlandse uitleg kun je terecht op de volgende site: www.bookcrossing.nl

If you are reading here, then I want to tell you that this is a. FREE . book, and there are no catches! It is now yours! Please read on.....
If you are the finder of this book it would be nice if you could leave a message here to say that you have it. Do not worry because I don't want the book back. It is yours to keep if you want it. I just want to know it is now in safe hands.