A good German and a perfect paella-making spook

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: March 7, 2005| Author: MICHAEL BURLEIGH | Copyright information

Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery by Richard Bassett (Weidenfeld, Pounds 20)

RICHARD Bassett is in the distinguished company of, for example, David Astor, Michael Balfour and Hedley Bull, in reminding us of the existence of an "other Germany" within the darkness of Hitler's Germany.

The life of Wilhelm Canaris exemplifies many of the values and virtues of those Germans who served Hitler, while simultaneously loathing him.

Canaris was a First World War nava...

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