Frank Foley worked as Passport Control Officer in Berlin during the war and helped thousands of Jews to escape from Germany. At the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann he was described as a Scarlet Pimpernel , risking his own life to save Jews threatened with death by the Nazis. In fact, his post at the Passport Office was a front for his real role as MI6 head of station. Despite having no diplomatic immunity and being liable to arrest at any time, he went into the concentration camps to get Jews out, he hid them in his home and helped them to get forged passports. One Jewish aid worker estimated that he saved tens of thousands of people from the Holocaust. Michael Smith has researched and vividly written one of the greatest unknown heroic stories of the Second World War.
- ISBN10 034071851X
- ISBN13 9780340718513
- Publish Date 16 September 1999 (first published 1 April 1999)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 January 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Coronet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 304
- Language English