Hamish Macgibbon

Maverick Spy (eBook, ePUB)

Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James's death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear - in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786722638
• Artikelnr.: 55354491

Autorenporträt

Hamish MacGibbon was Director of the Publishing House James and James. He is the son of James and Jean MacGibbon.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
ix Acknowledgements
xi Prologue
1 1. Son of the Manse
3 2. 'Ma V=voisine chez Shakespeare' 12 3. Spain
15 4. The Party and British Attitudes to the USSR
25 5. War: James Recruited by the Intelligence Corps
38 6. The Family in Berkshire, 1940
1941
47 7. Barbarossa
52 8. Natasha
58 9. Code Name 'Dolly'
64 10. The Red Army: From Disaster Towards Victory
72 11. Tehran and the D
Day Plans
76 12. 'He'll be writing yellow boots'
80 13. The Good Life in America
88 14. The Security Service Takes an Interest
96 15. A New Author; A New Firm
108 16. 'Not the way it's generally done' 115 17. A Visit from Mr Skardon
151 18. Mr White Misses the Plane
161 19. A New Director: Would He Fit In? 171 Epilogue
179 Appendix
187 Notes
206 Sources
217 Index
219