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- Title
- Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy a...
- ISBN
- 059307520X
- EAN
- 9780593075203
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 2016-09-01
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- Release Title
- Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy a...
- Artist
- Pearce, Martin
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- Book Title
- Spymaster: the Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of Mi6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
- Publisher
- Transworld LTD
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 240 mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Government, History
- Item Weight
- 682 g
- Item Width
- 162 mm
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief' Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator The extraordinary story of the most highly decorated British spymaster of the Cold War, Sir Maurice Oldfield. Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (commonly known as the SIS or MI6), he was the first Chief to be named and pictured in the press, and often alleged by them to be the model for the screen versions of both Ian Fleming's M and John Le Carre's George Smiley. This major study of Oldfield's life portrays one of the UK's most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. He was the first Chief of MI6 that hadn't come from an upper-class background or studied at Eton or Oxbridge. Rather, he was a farmer's son from a provincial grammar school who found himself accidentally plunged into the world of espionage by the outbreak of the Second World War. Oldfield was our man in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of JFK, and was largely responsible for keeping Britain out of the Vietnam War. This is the fascinating life story of Maurice Oldfield, written by his nephew Martin Pearce, who remembers asking his uncle what he did for a job. 'Oh it's quite boring really, dear boy. I'm a kind of security guard at embassies,' was the reply...
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Publisher
Transworld LTD
ISBN-13
9780593075203
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Book Title
Spymaster: the Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of Mi6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Government, History
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
240 mm
Item Weight
682 g
Item Width
162 mm
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United Kingdom
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