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A Foreign Field - A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War |
In 1914, four British soldiers, trapped behind enemy lines, were sheltered by French villagers and lived in extraordinary conditions, including hiding in a cupboard for months. One became involved with a local girl who had a child. This poignant account avoids sentimentality and retains the journalistic quality you'd expect from a former Times parliamentary sketch writer. It evokes the horrors of the period, the people's day-to-day existence and the petty jealousies which led to betrayal.
(Annie Noble - bwl 18 April 2003) |
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Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy |
The story of a deeply flawed woman who in the name of a twisted ideology betrayed her country. A devoted Mother she was an equally devoted servant of Russia and The KGB. I find it hard to find a good word to say for her. When someone is gripped by a fervent belief in a cause any moral compass goes out of the window. As with The Spy and the Traitor (see bwl 90), this detailed study of infamy is a riveting read.
(David Graham - bwl 98 Autumn 2020) |
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Agent Zigzag: the Story of Eddie Chapman |
A brilliant spy story - all the more riveting for being true, well-written, fully documented and illustrated - this book keeps the reader on the edge of his chair from the first page to the last. Chapman - a safe-blower, code name Zigzag - became one of Britain's most colourful and valuable double agents during WW II, out-foxing the Germans right up to the end. He died in 1997 at the ripe old age of 83.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 45 April 2008) |
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Double Cross; The True Story of the D-Day Spies |
This account of the deception at the heart of the preparations for D-Day offers an amazing and surreal insight into the minds and machinations of MI6 and reads like the best of thrillers; alarming to realise how destiny hangs by a thread, luck or human whim. The spies' bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway were the targets of the invasion force. Our debt to them is enormous.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 70 Autumn 2013) |
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War |
The thrilling, unputdownable story of Oleg Gordievsky, double agent, who revealed the KGB's inner secrets to British Intelligence, not for financial gain but from a high, moral imperative. His defection was an enormous coup for MI6. In an act of outstanding bravery he returned to Russia and underwent a harrowing ordeal before being rescued by the British in an epic escape. He was honoured by the Queen and now lives in a free country. What a story!
(David Graham - bwl 90 Autumn 2018) |
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