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A Reluctant Spy

Miller Caldwell

KEY SELLING POINTS
A unique untold true story of a middle-aged housewife recruited by the British Intelligence Services during
World War Two, written by her great nephew.
Set in Forres, North Scotland, where Hilda grew up and Hamburg, Portugal and London, where Hilda worked
as a spy.
Author has written over thirty books.

Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married a German national, Dr. Willy Buntner
Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and lived in Hamburg. Dr. Richter died in 1938. Later that year
she decided to visit her ailing parents in Scotland. 1938. After visiting her ailing parents, she returned to
Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent, controlled by Gerhard Eicke in
Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain. How could she cope under the strain, with her son Otto in the
German Army?

Hilda went on to give evidence against her German handler at the Nurenburg trials. Soon after, she married a
British Ambassador in Helsinki and joined her husband abroad. Hilda died in 1956.

This is an extraordinary story based on the life of the author’s great aunt, Hilda, including several authentic
accounts.

Miller Caldwell has led a full life where it seems one event has led to another. He confronted Usama bin
Laden in Pakistan and brought an African dictator to his knees in tears in Ghana. Miller served the Society of
Authors on their committee and was their events manager. He has previously published, amongst others, The
Trials of Sally Dunning (Matador), and Penned Poetry for Parkinson's Research (City Stone Publishers), which
he was diagnosed with in 2021. Two books, A Lingering Crime and Caught in a Cold War Trap both have Los
Angeles Film Scripts. Miller lives in Dumfries in southwest Scotland.

Comparative title: 9781805142591 Clown Prosecutor (Feb 24)

Publication Date: 28th April 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805143376
Thema subject category: DNX – True stories: general
paperback 198 x 129 mm 320 pp Portrait Author location: Dumfries

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