NORDEN, PETER; MAXWELL-BROWNJOHN, J. (TRANSLATOR) — Madam Kitty - a True Story [Ss Espionage]

London: Abelard-Schuman, 1973. First English Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0200719564. "In 1939 Kitty Schmidt was running one of the most fashionable and successful brothels in Berlin. It was soon to undergo a startling transformation - into a highly organized espionage centre, run by the SS and staffed by loyal Nazi agents acting as prostitutes. One espionage coup after another was pulled of on visitors including Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, SS leader Heinrich Himmler and Sepp Dietrich, Commander of Hitler's SS bodyguard. Author researched the amazing details of this operation - interviewing survivors of the period and sifting through a mass of documentary evidence (the 25,000 wax disks on which the conversations of Salon Kitty's illustrious clients were recorded are still stored in East Berlin). The result is a true story that reads as excitingly as any spy thriller." - dust jacket. Translated from the French. Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear to original red boards. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example. Enser p.188, The Secret Wars, Vol I, #1347. ; 8vo. Good in Good dust jacket .