Romania allied itself with the Nazis in the Second World War to protect
itself from the Soviet Union and to promote its own brand of fascist
nationalism. When George Tomaziu, who had spent the 1930s preparing for
a career as an artist, was invited to spy for Britain, he agreed because
Britain then represented the only possible bulwark against Nazism. He
went on to monitor German troop movements through Romania towards the
Russian front, observing, on one occasion, the mass-killing of Jews in
the small Ukrainian town of Brailov. He knew he might be arrested,
tortured and killed by Romania's rightwing regime but thought that if he
survived, his contribution to the war effort would be recognised. It
wasn't. After Romania turned Communist, he was sent back to prison in
1950 and kept him there for 13 years. Following his release, the British
helped him get out of Romania and he settled in Paris. This is his
memoir.