The Spy with 29 Names (38 page)
Barcelona was one of the first European cities to suffer major aerial bombardment. Here, bombs explode over the Eixample and Raval districts during a Civil War raid in 1938.
Pujol and Araceli married in April 1940, having met in the Francoist capital Burgos during the final weeks of the Spanish Civil War.
The German Embassy in Madrid, from which Kühlenthal and other Abwehr officers used to operate during the Second World War.
The cottages at Bletchley Park, where Dilly Knox had his team. This was where Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock first broke into the Abwehr Enigma in December 1941.
Half-Spanish half-Jewish, Tomás (Tommy) Harris was a talented artist and MI5 officer. He took over the running of Pujol as a British double agent in the spring of 1942 and they became close friends.
Pujol collaborated enthusiastically with the British. By the summer of 1942 Araceli had joined him in London and they lived with their two boys in Hendon.
35 Crespigny Road, the MI5 safe house in Hendon run by Mrs Titoff, where Pujol was taken to be debriefed.
55 Elliot Road, a two-minute walk from Crespigny Road. Pujol and Araceli lived here until early 1944.
Pujol’s handwriting was almost as flamboyant as his prose style. This is a letter he wrote supposedly from Madrid to Araceli in London as part of his elaborate cover story towards the end of the war.
A young Joachim Peiper on an official visit to Spain as Himmler’s adjutant in October 1940. Peiper is to the left of Himmler, glancing over towards Franco’s group.
Joachim (‘Jochen’) Peiper in 1943 wearing the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross that he won on the Eastern Front.
Tiger Tanks of the 1st SS Panzer Division LAH on manoeuvres through northern France, March 1944. Allied tank commanders feared and envied the Panthers and Tigers that their inferior machines had to face.
