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Gentleman Spymaster
Elliot Geoffrey
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Description for Gentleman Spymaster
Hardcover. BIC Classification: HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 674.
The biography of Thomas Argyll Robertson who played a key role in Operation Mincemeat (the Second World War operation which suggested that an invasion of Greece was imminent) and masterminded the 1944 Operation Fortitude (which was designed to persuade the Germans that the invasion of France would not take place in Normandy but in Pas de Calais). Thomas Argyll Robertson, known universally as Tar, joined MI5 in March 1933, recruited by Vernon Kell, the organisation's founder. He was not formally interviewed for service but was recommended by Kell's son John, Tar's contemporary at Charterhouse. In the 1930s MI5 was Vernon ... Read more
The biography of Thomas Argyll Robertson who played a key role in Operation Mincemeat (the Second World War operation which suggested that an invasion of Greece was imminent) and masterminded the 1944 Operation Fortitude (which was designed to persuade the Germans that the invasion of France would not take place in Normandy but in Pas de Calais). Thomas Argyll Robertson, known universally as Tar, joined MI5 in March 1933, recruited by Vernon Kell, the organisation's founder. He was not formally interviewed for service but was recommended by Kell's son John, Tar's contemporary at Charterhouse. In the 1930s MI5 was Vernon ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413777065
SKU
V9780413777065
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About Elliot Geoffrey
Geoffrey Elliott is the author of I Spy, and co-author of Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War, The Shooting Star, The Mystery of Overend and Gurney and From Siberia with Love. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Anthony's College, Oxford. Having trained as a Russian interpreter at the Joint Services School for Linguists, he has translated ... Read more
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