Czech Spies
SPY and Counter Spy is a story that deals with dynamiters, kidnappers, labour trouble-makers, the tangled skeins of war diplomacy-all the exciting and tense activity that is known as "spy stuff," and it is a story which is fully authenticated. As an instance, I should mention that Voslua was working continually hand in glove, as we say, with British Naval Intelligence in the United States, and you know how successful the British were in countering the frantic efforts of the Central Powers first to prevent American intervention in the Great War, and then to prevent American assistance from becoming effective. And while Spy and Counter Spy is an exciting book-a proper spy-thriller-it rises above the literature of its class in its implicit revelation of the high motives that make these peaceable Czech and Slav Americans risk their reputations, their liberty and their lives in the underground world of espionage. The burning nationalism, the willingness to risk all for freedom, give to these pages a quality of inspiration. This is an account of spying relieved entirely from the mercenary or the vindictive, and it adds to the testament of the magnificent struggle for Czech independence, now so unhappily, but we cannot doubt temporarily, in 7 Reda Review by John Moffett, May 14, 1941.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 103, 13 June 1941, Page 5
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214Czech Spies New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 103, 13 June 1941, Page 5
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