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‘How sleepless must be Kim Philby’s nights’: ibid., p. 373.
‘He’s a totally sad man’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 5.
‘like Glasgow on a Saturday night’: Tom Driberg,
Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background
(London, 1956), p. 100.
‘burdensome’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
, p. 235.
‘Any confession involves’: Rufina Philby, Mikhail Lyubimov and Hayden Peake,
The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years
(London, 1999), p. 257.
‘showed no interest’: Elliott,
Umbrella
, p. 185.
‘one of the better ones’: Knightley,
The Master Spy
,
p. 257.
‘tireless struggle in the cause’: ibid., p. 260.
‘My lips have hitherto been sealed’: Elliott,
My Little Eye
, p. 95.
‘a tremendous fluttering’: ibid.
‘undistinguished, albeit mildly notorious’: ibid., p. 10.
‘I feel I have been’: ibid.
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on
The Times
. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of nine previous books including
Agent Zigzag
, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the no. 1 bestseller
Operation Mincemeat
and most recently the Richard and Judy bestseller
Double Cross
. He lives in north London with his wife and three children.
Forgotten Fatherland
The Napoleon of Crime
A Foreign Field
Josiah the Great
Agent Zigzag
For Your Eyes Only
The Last Word
Operation Mincemeat
Double Cross
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One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5’s Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero, inside the villain, a man of conscience: the problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain’s most sensational double agent.
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One overcast April morning in 1943, a fisherman notices a corpse floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. When the body is brought ashore, he is identified as a British soldier, Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. A leather attaché case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence goldmine: top-secret documents Allied invasion plans.
But Major William Martin never existed. The body is that of a dead Welsh tramp and every single document is fake.
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‘With its fantastic plot and its cast of eccentric characters, the book reads like the most improbable of spy stories. It is a tribute to Macintyre’s skill that we never for a moment forget that it is actually all true’
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‘
Macintyre has a journalist’s nose for a great story, and a novelist’s skill in its narration ... spellbinding’
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D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit...
At the heart of the deception was the ‘Double Cross System’, a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong Allied invasion force. These were not conventional warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved thousands of lives. Their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo. This is their story.
‘Macintyre is a first-class narrative historian ... as pacy as a thriller and better written than most’
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‘Enthralling ... A book so gripping that I even found myself reading it in lifts, frequently emitting snorts of incredulity. A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places’
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