Alan Judd

Baiting the trap with CHEESE: how we fooled the Germans in the second world war

Alan Judd recalls how an inventive MI6 agent continued  to bamboozle the Germans from prison in a review of Double Cross in Cairo by Nigel West

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  • Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East

    Nigel West

    Biteback, pp. 321

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