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Maverick spy : Stalin's super-agent in World War II / Hamish MacGibbon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacGibbon, Hamish, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- MacGibbon, James.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Secret service.
- Spies--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Spies.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
- Summary:
- " A few years before he died, James MacGibbon confessed to his closest family members that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James's death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear-in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- 1 Son of the Manse 3
- 2 'Ma voisine chez Shakespeare' 12
- 3 Spain 15
- 4 The Party and British Attitudes to the USSR 25
- 5 War: James Recruited by the Intelligence Corps 38
- 6 The Family in Berkshire, 1940-1941 47
- 7 Barbarossa 52
- 8 Natasha 58
- 9 Code Name 'Dolly' 64
- 10 The Red Army: From Disaster Towards Victory 72
- 11 Tehran and the D-Day Plans 76
- 12 'He'll be wearing yellow boots' 80
- 13 The Good Life in America 88
- 14 The Security Service Takes an Interest 96
- 15 A New Author; A New Firm 108
- 16 'Not the way it's generally done' 115
- 17 A Visit from Mr Skardon 151
- 18 Mr White Misses the Plane 161
- 19 A New Director: Would He Fit In? 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784537739
- 178453773X
- OCLC:
- 953982011
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