She sabotaged communications on the River Danube. She was the longest serving SOE female agent. After the war ended, she was awarded the George Medal, and she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, an award usually handed out to lieutenant colonels. One of her pseudonyms...
SEX, SPIES, CRICKET AND THE FALL OF THE INSANE EMPIRE; as an Expat Behind the Iron Curtain, Manfully Fighting off Seductionbids by Communist Agents, EDWARD LUCAS Was a Witness to History When, 20 Years Ago, the Berlin Wall Came Down. Here, He Vividly Recalls a Very Surreal Revolution ...
As democratic oversight vanished, colonial violence reached a new pitch, with lasting consequences in the Middle East, British attitudes towards the state, and, and military tactics. The book offers a new understanding of the legacies of the Great War and of the British empire in the twentieth ...
Spies in monks' clothing: as the British Empire expanded across the Indian subcontinent during the 19th century, concerns about the threat from Imperial Russia to the north created a pressing need for detailed cartographic knowledge of the vast, little-known trans- Himalayan region. Enter the ...
For her work, Skarbek was awarded with the George Medal and made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 1946, she was naturalized as a British citizen and officially took the name Christine Granville for good. Supposedly, Vesper Lynd ofCasino Royalewas based on Granville, although...
The British Empire invested in these cables to connect and control its distant territories. In fact, they were referred to as the "nervous system of the British Empire." Thefirst transatlantic cable in 1858demonstrated the potential for rapid communication between continents. This revolutionized busine...
The set? In the midst of a Cold War atmosphere, an exotic city where paranoia reigns amongst spies from all walks of life. The novels contain everything that France was in the 50s -- the fourth Republic, the end of the colonial empire, a rather macho, rather misogynist relationship to ...
It would truly have been our darkest hour; German boots on Britain’s streets and the country under the heel of Hitler’s Nazi tyranny. But the battle would not have ended there, and some of the methods used by a planned network of underground resistance operators to continue the fight wou...
Sidney Reilly was a spy who obtained Persian oil concessions and German naval secrets for Britain. Many of the romanticized stories about him may have been inventions of his own. Born the illegitimate son of a Jewish doctor in Odessa, he studied chemistr
10-year-old James Hamilton-Paterson was present. “A faint scent of kerosene vapour hung over the scene,” he recalled inEmpire of the Clouds(2010), his account of the golden age of British aviation. Though horrific, the crash was something of a wizard prang for the schoolboy plane-...