Operation Garbo

One of their girl helpers posed as a revolutionary and arranged for me to be let out of the prison at dead of night.

However, the situation grew worse as the hours went by; it was clearly no ordinary military coup d’état, but nobody had yet realised that it was the beginning of three long years of civil war.

Spain had taken a neutral position in the First World War, although the country leant toward the Allied cause.

His usual excuse had been his fear of the Official Secrets Act.