Summary of Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Eddie Chapman was a criminal, but he was also a dedicated professional criminal. He was a prince of the underworld, in his own estimation. He was married, and another woman was pregnant with his child.
#2 Chapman had a difficult childhood, with little money and not much love. He soon developed a talent for misbehaviour, and a distaste of authority. He joined the army, but was arrested for going absent without leave and sent to prison.
#3 Soho in the 1930s was a den of notorious vice, and spectacular fun. It was a crossroads of London society where the rich and feckless met the criminal and reckless. Chapman found work as a barman, then as a film extra, earning £3 for three days doing crowd work.
#4 The Jelly Gang was formed in the early 1930s, and they began targeting high-class furriers and pawnbrokers. They stole £15,000 from the safes they broke into. Chapman began spending money as fast as he could steal it, and he became friendly with many famous people.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Général
• Military

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669358152
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Eddie Chapman was a criminal, but he was also a dedicated professional criminal. He was a prince of the underworld, in his own estimation. He was married, and another woman was pregnant with his child.

#2

Chapman had a difficult childhood, with little money and not much love. He soon developed a talent for misbehaviour, and a distaste of authority. He joined the army, but was arrested for going absent without leave and sent to prison.

#3

Soho in the 1930s was a den of notorious vice, and spectacular fun. It was a crossroads of London society where the rich and feckless met the criminal and reckless. Chapman found work as a barman, then as a film extra, earning £3 for three days doing crowd work.

#4

The Jelly Gang was formed in the early 1930s, and they began targeting high-class furriers and pawnbrokers. They stole £15,000 from the safes they broke into. Chapman began spending money as fast as he could steal it, and he became friendly with many famous people.

#5

Chapman, the leader of the Jelly Gang, was arrested in 1938. He had pasted press clippings about his crimes into a scrapbook. He had become bored with the gang’s activities and had begun reading widely. He was planning to become a writer.

#6

In February 1939, the gang attempted to rob a Co-op store in Bournemouth. When Case Number Seventeen came before the Edinburgh High Court, it was found that Chapman and his accomplices had absconded. A general bulletin was issued, and every police force in Britain was told to be on the lookout for Eddie Chapman.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

A letter sent to a girl in Bournemouth led to the arrest of two members of a gang wanted for the blowing of a safe at a cooperative store and the theft of £470. The third man, who was believed to be the leader of the gang, escaped.

#2

In 1939, Edward Chapman appeared before the Royal Court of Jersey and pleaded guilty to charges of house-breaking and larceny. The jury sentenced him to two years’ hard labor. The prison he was sent to was relatively lax, and he soon became the governor’s personal batman.

#3

On 7 July, Captain Foster, his wife, and their 18-year-old son, Andrew, went to the Jersey Scottish Society's annual summer fête in St Brelade. Chapman cleaned the governor's kitchen in their absence.

#4

Chapman had spent the day before stealing explosives from a quarry on Jersey. That evening, he spotted Walter Picard's parked car and decided to steal it. He knew the encounter would be reported immediately.

#5

Chapman was arrested and the footballers came to his aid. A free-for-all ensued, with the police trying to get the handcuffs on Chapman as they were attacked by a crowd of semi-naked holidaymakers. The fracas ended when Golding punched Chapman in the midriff.

#6

In September 1939, Chapman was brought before the Criminal Assizes and sentenced to a further year in prison, to run consecutively with his earlier conviction. The news of his sentencing only received a single paragraph in the Evening Post.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The war was fought in monochrome: good and evil, winner and loser, champion and coward. But away from the battlefields, war forces individuals to make impossible choices in circumstances they did not create and could never have expected.

#2

Chapman was finally released from prison in October 1941, just before the German invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia. The island was still recovering from the effects of war, and the German occupation brought even more moral confusion.

#3

Faramus and Chapman opened a hair salon in St. Helier, and began spying for the Nazis. They offered to work as spies for the Nazis, and if they were accepted, they might be sent over to mainland Britain, undercover.

#4

The offer to spy for Germany was prompted by the simple and sincere desire to escape and be united with his child, whom he had never seen.