The Gehlen Memoirs: The First Full Edition Of The Memoirs Of General Reinhard Gehlen 1942-1971
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Few figures in the shadowy world of Cold War intelligence cast as long a shadow as General Reinhard Gehlen — Hitler's chief of Eastern Front espionage who reinvented himself as the architect of West Germany's postwar secret service. The Gehlen Memoirs presents the first full, unabridged account of Gehlen's extraordinary career, spanning three decades of conflict and intrigue from 1942 to 1971, translated by historian David Irving and published by Collins in 1972. With remarkable candour, Gehlen chronicles his wartime role as head of *Fremde Heere Ost* (Foreign Armies East), his capture and subsequent recruitment by American intelligence, and the construction of the organisation that would bear his name — the Gehlen Org — before it was absorbed into the BND, West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service. This memoir sits at the intersection of military history, political biography, and espionage thriller, offering an insider's account of the intelligence wars that shaped the early Cold War order. Gehlen writes with the measured precision of a career spymaster, revealing calculated decisions and carefully guarded secrets while leaving the reader perpetually questioning what remains unsaid — making it an indispensable, if necessarily partial, document of twentieth-century history.
Author: Reinhard Gehlen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Collins, St James's Place, London
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few figures in the shadowy world of Cold War intelligence cast as long a shadow as General Reinhard Gehlen — Hitler's chief of Eastern Front espionage who reinvented himself as the architect of West Germany's postwar secret service. The Gehlen Memoirs presents the first full, unabridged account of Gehlen's extraordinary career, spanning three decades of conflict and intrigue from 1942 to 1971, translated by historian David Irving and published by Collins in 1972. With remarkable candour, Gehlen chronicles his wartime role as head of *Fremde Heere Ost* (Foreign Armies East), his capture and subsequent recruitment by American intelligence, and the construction of the organisation that would bear his name — the Gehlen Org — before it was absorbed into the BND, West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service. This memoir sits at the intersection of military history, political biography, and espionage thriller, offering an insider's account of the intelligence wars that shaped the early Cold War order. Gehlen writes with the measured precision of a career spymaster, revealing calculated decisions and carefully guarded secrets while leaving the reader perpetually questioning what remains unsaid — making it an indispensable, if necessarily partial, document of twentieth-century history.