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December 2024 Batch
Giveaway Ended: December 26 at 06:00 pm EST
Code Peking Duck – the true story of a former CIA-agent in a turbulent decade.
After a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams, German pacifist Michael Miller ends up as a U.S. Army medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat’s horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. Facing years of prison for desertion, the CIA – impressed by the curious way of Miller's desertion – gave him the chance of a new life.
From now on, Miller freed in spectacular actions dissidents and defectors by bus, train, plane and helicopters from behind the iron curtain to the West. On top of his career he rescued an Iranian oil minister from Teheran and 141 German hostages out of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr during the riots of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
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- Paper
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, History, Suspense & Thriller, Nonfiction
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- Heller Verlag (Publisher)
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July 2024 Batch
Giveaway Ended: July 25 at 06:00 pm EDT
Code Peking Duck – the true story of a former CIA-agent in a turbulent decade.
After a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams, German pacifist Michael Miller ends up as a U.S. Army medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat’s horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. Facing years of prison for desertion, the CIA – impressed by the curious way of Miller's desertion – gave him the chance of a new life.
From now on, Miller freed in spectacular actions dissidents and defectors by bus, train, plane and helicopters from behind the iron curtain to the West. On top of his career he rescued an Iranian oil minister from Teheran and 141 German hostages out of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr during the riots of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
- Media
- Paper
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, History, Nonfiction
- Offered by
- Heller Verlag (Publisher)
- Links
- Book Information
LibraryThing Work Page