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Vienna, located at the heart of Europe was the city of choice for American, British, German and Russian spymasters in their merciless trade, to plot against one another and steal secrets. For the first time a book is dedicated to the secret stories of spymasters, their tradecraft and secret sources from the end of the World War I, the Interwar with the rise of Nazis to the Second World War and the Cold War. The rich of culture and music Vienna hid a labyrinth of spies and dissidents in the interwar period, and a powerful Gestapo presence during the war meant that the Office of Strategic Services and British intelligence could not deploy operatives in Austria in general. In post war, a few young American and British intelligence officers pitted their wits against hundreds of seasoned Russian operatives of the NKVD and their thousands of informers. and the secret truth was that both Russian and Allied intelligence services employed members of the Nazi intelligence services just upon the defeat of Germany in 1945 and the occupation of Austria.

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'A fascinating insight into one of the great spy cities of the world' - Andrew Lownie, author of Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Gary Burgess 'Panagiotis Dimitrakis is a master of uncovering secret files that others cannot find. Berlin, Lisbon and Istanbul have all been acclaimed as the spy capital of Europe but the well-documented stories of spymasters' lives and actions Dimitrakis reveals in Our Man in Vienna demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was only ever one real City of Spies' - Michael Smith, author of The Anatomy of a Traitor and MI6: The Real James Bonds 1909-39

'A fascinating insight into one of the great spy cities of the world' - Andrew Lownie, author of Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess 'Panagiotis Dimitrakis is a master of uncovering secret files that others cannot find. Berlin, Lisbon and Istanbul have all been acclaimed as the spy capital of Europe but the well-documented stories of spymasters' lives and actions Dimitrakis reveals in Our Man in Vienna demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was only ever one real City of Spies' - Michael Smith, author of The Anatomy of a Traitor and MI6: The Real James Bonds 1909-39

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Panagiotis Dimitrakis holds a doctorate from the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He has written extensively on intelligence, diplomacy and the history of espionage in the 20th century. He is the author of The Hidden War in Argentina: British and American Espionage in World War II, The Secret War for China: Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao and Secrets and Lies in Vietnam: Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam Wars. His research articles have been published in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal of Intelligence History, Comparative Strategy and Middle Eastern Studies.

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