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The Spy's Bedside Book Graham Greene

The Spy's Bedside Book By Graham Greene

The Spy's Bedside Book by Graham Greene


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Summary

Includes an introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington. This book also includes spy stories as well as answers to questiions like: How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? And why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia?

The Spy's Bedside Book Summary

The Spy's Bedside Book by Graham Greene

On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim.There are also some unexpected figures: William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia? Answers to these questions and much more can be found in this thrilling collection, which will enthral readers once again with its tales of espionage from a bygone era.

About Graham Greene

Graham Greene was born in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford he published his first book of verse. He continued to write throughout his lifetime, and served with the Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War. He died in 1991. Hugh Greene was born in 1910. He came to prominence as a journalist when he became a chief correspondent in Nazi Berlin. During the Second World War he served in the RAF. He went on to join the BBC and was made Director-General in 1960. He died in 1987.

Additional information

GOR001630511
9780091920616
0091920612
The Spy's Bedside Book by Graham Greene
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cornerstone
20071004
272
N/A
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