The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781602397101)

Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made an incredible escape from Denmark in a battered old Hornet Moth aircraft - which he had to refuel in mid-air by climbing out on the wing. Later, he escaped from Denmark again - by walking across a treacherous frozen sea on which two of his companions died. Tommy brought over precious intelligence about the Nazi radar installations in Denmark and their atom bomb - his reward was to be imprisoned in Brixton as a suspected double agent and threatened with execution.

He cheated the hangman - but it is only with the publication of this enthralling book that Sneum can be celebrated as, in the words of Professor R.V. Jones, Churchill's chief of scientific intelligence, 'one of the true heroes of World War II'.

Author: Mark Ryan
ISBN-10: 1602397104
ISBN-13: 9781602397101
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.24w x 1.32d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2009
Library Journal 03/15/2009 pg. 112