The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader

A Compendium of Spy Writing
Herausgeber: Smith, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compendium of the finest writing, including fiction and biography, on and by spies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781849547406
• ISBN-10: 1849547408
• Artikelnr.: 40888291

Autorenporträt

Michael Smith is an award-winning journalist and number one bestselling author. Smith served in the British Army's Intelligence Corps before joining the BBC. He has since worked as a reporter for both the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, covering the wars in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. His many journalistic scoops include the publication of the Downing Street Memos, which exposed the way in which intelligence was 'fixed' in Washington DC in order to justify the war in Iraq. Smith's many books include Six: A History of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1939; The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War and Killer Elite: The inside story of America's most secret Special Operations team. He lives near Henley-on-Thames with his wife and family.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Michael Smith
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent [Extract]
Erskine Childers, Riddle of the Sands [Extract]
William Le Queux, Spies of the Kaiser [Extract]
Basil Thomson, Queer People [Extract - On Spy Scares]
William Melville, Memoirs of life with early 20th century British
Intelligence and then MI5 [National Archives]
John Buchan, Greenmantle [Extract]
HC Bywater and HC Ferraby, Strange Intelligence [Extract]
Basil Thomson, Queer People 2 [Extract on Mata Hari]
Captain Henry Landau, All's Fair [Extract on the British agent inside Great
Germany, Karl Krüger]
Karl Krüger, Report on Aftermath of Jutland [National Archives]
Somerset Maugham, Ashenden [Extract]
Redmond Cafferata, Instructions to Agents going into Germany [Extract from
SIX]
Pierre-Marie Cavrois O'Caffrey, Intelligence report on potential bombing
target in Belgium [National Archives]
Compton Mackenzie, Greek Memories [Extract]
JC Lawson, Tales of Aegean Intrigue [Extract]
Norman Dewhurst, Norman Dewhurst MC [Extract]
George Hill, Go Spy the Land [Extract]
John Dymoke Scale, Personal Memoir of Secret Service operations in Romania
[Family Papers]
John Merrett and Sir Paul Dukes, Documents describing Merrett's role in
post-Revolution Petrograd [National Archives]
Sir Paul Dukes, Red Morrow [Extract]
Sidney Reilly, Ace of Spies [Extract]
Hubert Pollack, Memoir of Frank Foley's role in saving Jews in Germany [Yad
Vashem document]
Ian Fleming, On his own role as Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval
Intelligence and on saving MI6 for Bond. [National Archives]
John Godfrey on Sidney Cotton [National Archives]
Airey Neave, Little Cyclone [Extract]
Mieczyslaw Zygfryd Slowikowski, Codename Rygor [Extract]
Richard Heslop, Xavier [Extract]
Maurice Buckmaster, They Fought Alone [Extract]
Michael Smith, The Bletchley Park Codebreakers [Extract on Double Cross
Operation]
Juan Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo [Extract]
Kenneth Benton, Recruitment of Double Agent Treasure [National Archives]
F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas on his arrest by the Gestapo and incarceration in
Buchenwald [National Archives]
Bob Steers, Account of his MI6 operations in immediate post-war Berlin
[Personal archives]
John le Carre, Call For The Dead [Permission being sought]
Ian Milne, Kim Philby [Extract]
Kim Philby, How I was recruited to work for Moscow [KGB Archives]
Graham Greene, The Human Factor [Extract] [Permission being sought]
Guy Burgess, Report to Moscow [KGB Archives]
Matthew Dunn, To select extract from one of his books [Permission Granted]
Alan Judd, Uncommon Enemy [Extract] [Permission being sought]
Anthony Blunt, Series of MI5 Cartoons Showing How to Tail a Spy, which
Blunt passed to the KGB [KGB Archives] [You may remember they were in The
Spying Game, the rights for which I have removed from Tummons's clutches!]