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Maverick Spy
Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II
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Artikel-Nr:
9781784537739
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.10.2017
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Hamish Macgibbon
Gewicht:
516 g
Format:
231x161x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Hamish MacGibbon was Director of the Publishing House James and James. He is the son of James and Jean MacGibbon.
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.
Uncovers the hitherto obscured role of a young British Intelligence Corps officer in transmitting intelligence to the Soviet Union during World War II.
List of Plates - ixAcknowledgements - xiPrologue - 11. Son of the Manse - 32. 'Ma V=voisine chez Shakespeare' 123. Spain - 154. The Party and British Attitudes to the USSR - 255. War: James Recruited by the Intelligence Corps - 386. The Family in Berkshire, 1940-1941 - 477. Barbarossa - 528. Natasha - 589. Code Name 'Dolly' - 6410. The Red Army: From Disaster Towards Victory - 7211. Tehran and the D-Day Plans - 7612. 'He'll be writing yellow boots' - 8013. The Good Life in America - 8814. The Security Service Takes an Interest - 9615. A New Author; A New Firm - 10816. 'Not the way it's generally done' 11517. A Visit from Mr Skardon - 15118. Mr White Misses the Plane - 16119. A New Director: Would He Fit In? 171Epilogue - 179Appendix - 187Notes - 206Sources - 217Index - 219