My Secret Service: Vienna Sophia Constantinople Nish Belgrade Asia Minor etc

In 1914 the anonymous author a journalist by profession with no pretensions to military training embarked on one of the most outrageous escapades of the First World War as he travelled behind German lines collecting information on the German war machine. Across Germany the Balkans and even so far as Turkey meeting heads of states ministers and even the Kaiser himself! His story may seem far-fetched but included in his book (and reproduced with this edition) are a Vienna bread ticket of 1915 the calling card of Halil Bey and other documents to prove his tale. However in the modest yet dashing spirit of the times the author was at pains to point out that I AM not a spy that I wish to make abundantly clear; I am a journalist and I love my profession. Equally well I love adventure and sport the greatest sport in the world in which the stake is the players life.A jaunty read.