The Making of a Spy

Download or read book The Making of a Spy written by Gerhardt B. Thamm and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 17-year-old Gerhardt Thamm arrived in America in 1948 with little more than his American birth certificate. With minimal command of English and little formal education, he enlisted in the Army and quickly found himself assigned to operations where his German language abilities were put to use. With the Soviet Union's emergence as a potential adversary, Thamm was recruited into the Army's clandestine services, where he operated as a secret agent in Germany, under multiple identities. This richly detailed personal narrative tells Thamm's incredible story (with more than two dozen photographs and sketches).