BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. 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, an...

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1. Verfasser:	Pearce, Martin (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; Auckland ; Johannesburg Bantam Press 2016
Schlagworte:	Oldfield, Maurice / Sir / 1915-1981 Oldfield, Maurice > 1915-1981 Geschichte 1900-2000 Espionage / Great Britain / History / 20th century Geschichte Großbritannien Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. 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
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	391 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Portraits 25 cm