Top Secret Mission: The Story of a post-war assign (by Madelaine Duck)

• 1954 first edition, 208 pages
• Published by Evans Brothers Ltd, London
• Hardcover with dust jacket, black boards
• Good condition, front page removed, some age wear and tear to dust jacket and edge of boards, slightly cocked, clean interior

Forward by Bruse Marshall.  Some black and white photos.  WhenMadelaine Duke, returned after the war, to the Continent where she had spent much of her childhood, her mission was to find her brother Tony who had disappeared in Germany at the outbreak of War.  Madelaine gave up her work as an atom physicist in Britain and joined the Allied Commission in Austria as an interpreter in oder to search for him.  She found Tony, but another greater mission lay ahead.   She was given the task of tracing Hans Hassler, German Atom scientist, fantaical ex S.S Officer, and two of his colleagues who knowledge would prove invaluable to the Russians.  One of the most astonishing and dramatic stories ever published