A Reluctant Spy

By Miller Caldwell

Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married German national Dr Willy Bűttner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and returned to settle in Hamburg. Dr Richter died in 1938. After visiting her ailing parents, Hilda returned to Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent, controlled by Gerhardt Eicke in Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain. How could she cope under such strain, and with her son Otto in the German Army? Nor did she expect her evidence to be so cruelly challenged at theNuremberg Trials. Learn of her post-war life, which took her abroad as a British Ambassador’s wife. This is an extraordinary story based on the life of the author’s great aunt, Hilda. The book includes several authentic accounts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
• Release date: Sep 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781912850655

Miller Caldwell

Miller Caldwell has led a full life where it seems one event has led to another. He confronted Osama 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.