House of Spies
St Ermin's Hotel, the London Base of British Espionage
St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as 'The Works Canteen'. Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less well-known names. Winston Churchill allegedly conceived the idea of the Special Operations Executive there over a glass (or two) of his favourite champagne in the early days of the Second World War, and the operation was started up in three gloomy rooms on the hotel's second floor, with the traitorous Cambridge Spies among its founders. When Stalin's Russia turned to a peacetime enemy in the C…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7509-6407-4
- EAN: 9780750964074
- Produktnummer: 21108364
- Verlag: The History Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'419 KB
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PETER MATTHEWS is a trustee of the Foreign Press Association and works with a wide range of international journalists and intelligence specialists. He is an author on military history and international relations, including SIGINT: The Secret History of Signals Intelligence in the World Wars published by The History Press and nominated for the Intelligence Book of the Year. He served in the army during the Berlin Air Lift and was involved in intelligence activities there during the Cold War.
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