The first biography of the gentleman spy and writer who provided the inspiration for John le Carre's most famous character.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Jago read Ancient History and Philosophy at University College Oxford before settling in the USA in 1980. For 15 years he ran an educational travel business, specialising in the battlefields of western Europe and operated the American College of Travel in Los Angeles. When he sold his travel business in 1995 he launched a football magazine that grew from its California base to be published in several states across the southwestern and midwestern USA. After acquiring a further degree as a (very) mature student at Oxford, he has adopted the writing of biography as his career. He lives in both Chicago and south-west France.
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Contents Acknowledgements vii Preface 1 Chapter 1 Ancestry, 1100-1908, and Early Life, 5 1908-27 Chapter 2 Political Awakening, 1927-9 32 Chapter 3 Journalism and Marriage, 1929-39 48 Chapter 4 Fighting Fascism: MI5, 1940-45 78 Chapter 5 Allied Control Council, 1946-8 112 Chapter 6 Journalist, 1948-50 136 Chapter 7 Return to MI5 and Debut as a Novelist, 151 1950-58 Chapter 8 The Genesis of George Smiley, 1958-66 182 Chapter 9 MI5 Agent Runner and Novelist, 1960-69 196 Chapter 10 Disappointments, 1969-79 220 Chapter 11 Smiley Triumphant, 1974-82 241 Chapter 12 Retirement, 1979-88 260 Chapter 13 The Seventh Lord Clanmorris, 1908-88 283 Bibliography 293 Index 299 Picture credits 309
