Lord Ashdown on the Game of Spies

Join Paddy Ashdown, renowned politician and former marine and intelligence officer, as he discusses his latest book, The Game of Spies. He recreates an absolutely riveting three-way spy story set in occupied France. He grippingly tells the story of a lethal spy triangle that existed between 1942 and 1944 in Bordeaux and of France’s greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader André Grandclément.

The story centres on three men: one British, one French and one German and the duel they fought out in a tense atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold out fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans as casually as they would drink a bottle of wine. It is a gripping story of the Special Operations Executive, treachery, bed-hopping and executions in the city labelled “la plus collaboratrice” in the whole of France.