The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committ….

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath..

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to ….

The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in part….

What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Mo….

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace..

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology….

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret..