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Full Description
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).
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Man for All Seasons
Words of Wisdom
A Note About Names
Prologue—A Man Called Trenker
Scared as Hell
Riding the Rollercoaster
Boy Soldier
Strangers in Our Own Land
Life in Post-World War II Germany
Black Market Days
America at Last
You're in the Army Now...
War—Once again
Assignment: The U.S. Army General School
Germany, Here I Come
Something Special
The Visit
Every Man Has a Price
Tattered Cloak and Rusty Dagger
Doktor Hermann and Georg Trenker
The Transformation
Special Operations Team Number Three (SpecOps 3)
Special Tasks—German Automobile License Plates
Special Tasks—The Proprietary
Special Tasks—The Proprietary 2
Nosy Old Lady
Close Call
Special Tasks—The Proprietary 3
On the Streets of Berlin
Not Quite According to the Rules
Ceramics?
Problem in the Floor Wax Business
Contact Lost
Code Name "The Shepherd"
Another Busy Day in Berlin
Reorganization: The New Boss
Wasted Effort
The Last Christmas in Silesia
New Task—Build a Bolthole
Life Is a Gamble
End of Tour of Duty
Trust, and the Bad Apple
Order, Counterorder
The Later Years
Postscript
Notes
Index
