"How an Australian took the Nazis for a ride"--Cover. Contents include: Hidden vale -- Unsuitable for employment -- Over the ice -- Colour by Dufay -- Cloak and dagger Fred -- Reichmarschall -- Cotton's crooks --Plying for hire -- War surplus -- Buccaneer -- Whisky for the prince -- Amazone days -- Bitter ends. Who was Sidney Cotton? A great aviator or a confidence trickster? A brilliant innovator or a self-seeking social climber? A patriot or a war profiteer? Or all of the above?Sidney Cotton was born in Queensland. He served as a pilot in World War I and, af ter a variety of business ventures, he became involved with MI6 as World War II loomed, making numerous spy flights over Germany and Italy. He later fell out with the RAF and the security establishment - but he will always be remembered as the man who flew the last civilian plane out of Berlin before the declaration of war.After the war he supplied guns to Hyderabad (in India). His business life remained varied.