Robert Chartham was the pseudonym of Ronald Sydney Seth (5 June 1911 – 1 February 1985), an English writer who used the surname Chartham for his activity as a

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and the surname Seth for books about travel and espionage. As a child Seth was a chorister at

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and a King's Scholar at

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. He was educated at

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.Obituary
''The Times'', 5 February 1985. Appointed Professor of Literature at the

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, Estonia, Seth returned to London at the start of World War II, joining the

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and helping to start the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau. In 1941 he was commissioned into the

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and in 1942 joined the

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. Parachuted into Estonia, he was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the

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(the SS intelligence agency) as an agent for a mission to Britain. He spent most of the rest of the war as an informer in the Oflag 79 prisoner-of-war camp, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by

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(head of the SS), which he carried to London via Switzerland. Seth's career included teaching and counselling in European universities, lecturing to British university students on "How to Enjoy Sex" and serving as a counsellor in his own London clinic. He was an editorial consultant to ''Forum: The International Journal of Human Relations''. During the 1970s, he lived in Malta with his second wife, Barbara McAdam Seth.

Works

as Ronald Seth: * ''Baltic Corner: Travel in Estonia'', 1939 * ''A Spy Has No Friends'', 1952. Republished 2008 by Barbara Seth, Seth's second wife.'War hero lived to tell tale after gallows failure'
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'', 16 October 2008 * ''Secret Servants, a History of Japanese Espionage'', 1957 * ''Operation Retriever'', Before 1958 * ''Operation Lama'', Before 1958 * ''The True Book about the Secret Service'', Before 1958 * ''Operation Ormer'', Before 1958 * ''How Spies Work'', Before 1958 * ''The Spy and the Atom Gun: Introducing Captain Geoffrey Martel of the British Secret Service'', 1958 * ''For My Name's Sake'', 1958 * ''Two Fleets Surprised'', 1960 * ''Anatomy of Spying'', 1963 * ''Forty Years of Soviet Spying'', 1965 * ''Caporetto'', 1965 * ''Russell Pasha'', 1966 * ''The Russian Terrorists'', 1967 * ''The Executioners: The Story of SMERSH'', 1967 * ''The Sleeping Truth: The

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- Chambers Affair: the Spy Case that Split a Nation'', 1968 * ''Spies: Their Trade and Their Tricks'', 1969 * ''Encyclopedia of Espionage'', 1972 * ''Jackals of the Reich'', 1972 as Dr. Robert Chartham: * ''Mainly for Wives'', 1963 * ''Sex Manners for Advanced Lovers'', 1969 * ''The Sensuous Couple'', 1971 * ''Your Sexual Future'', 1973

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chartham, Robert 1911 births 1985 deaths University of Paris alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge British sexologists British expatriates in France