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Stuart A. Kallen
Lerner Publications
Minneapolis
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Content consultant: Eric Juhnke, Professor of History, Briar Cliff University
Copyright 2018 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may
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Lerner Publications Company
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kallen, Stuart A., 1955 author.
Title: World War II spies and secret agents / by Stuart A. Kallen.
Other titles: World War Two spies and secret agents
Description: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, 2018. | Series: Heroes of World
War II | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Audience: Grade: 4 to
6. | Audience: Age: 8 to 12.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017009638 (print) | LCCN 2017012093 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781512498202 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781512486421 (lb : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 19391945Secret serviceJuvenile literature. |
EspionageHistory20th centuryJuvenile literature. | SpiesHistory
20th centuryJuvenile literature. | SpiesBiographyJuvenile literature.
Classification: LCC D810.S7 (ebook) | LCC D810.S7 K257 2018 (print) | DDC
940.54/860922dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009638
Manufactured in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
A DARING
ADVENTURE
Britain moves troops after
World War II begins in 1939.
In January 1940 , British secret agent Merlin
Minshall, along with a small team, rented six .
They loaded the boats with cement and wired them
with . The plan was to send the barges down
the Danube River in Romania and then blow them up
at the rivers narrowest point, known as the Iron Gates.
If the plan worked, the cement-filled sunken barges
would be very hard to move. This would block the
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Danube for months and stop ships carrying war supplies to
Germany.
As the barges sailed down the Danube, Minshall followed
close behind in a high-speed boat. But the mission was doomed.
Romanian spies working at the port had tipped off the , and
German soldiers had secretly drained each barge of half its fuel.
The barges slowed to a halt before reaching the Iron Gates.
Nazi officials arrived and searched the barges. They found the
explosives. The Nazis tried to arrest Minshall, but he made a
quick escape in his boat under a hail of Nazi gunfire. After a
two-hour high-speed chase, Minshall got away.
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