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October 30, 1917The last few nerve-wracking missions had been followed by a week of advanced training including new cryptography techniques, self-defence with Captain Samson, and how to scale a wall! When
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August 30, 1917My fellow operatives, Jean and Armand, stared at the map that I had pencil drawn on letter sized piece of paper. “There is an electrified fence, on the other end of the forest,” Jean
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Sept 01, 1917As Berg and I entered the entrance to the passages the second time, I found I wasn’t so nearly overcome with the feeling of being buried alive or smothered in dust and dirt as I had been
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August 23, 1917 I’m stationed in a town called Kortrijk in Belgium. Soon after destroying the German phone exchange hut in Nivelle, I received word that it was too dangerous for me to stay there considering
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July 30, 1917With all my training in espionage and the people I have met and worked with, none come close to Magda. Around my age in her early twenties, she has pale skin and long dark hair rolled into
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May 28, 1917Five days ago, I arrived at Ostende where I’m staying with an older Flemish couple. The man, whom I will call Monsieur Audelet, is in his early sixties and owns a fisherman’s supply store
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March 31, 1917We watched an airplane go down this morning, about thirty kilometres inside occupied French territory, near Urcel. As far as I could tell it was a british bi-plane, perhaps a Bristol Scout.
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February 1, 1917(From Murder in Belgravia)Pantin, the French operative who’d been captured by the Germans two weeks ago, was rescued. Unconscious and gravely wounded, he’d been left to die in a shelled
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