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…

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

- Ben Macintyre

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…

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

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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 …

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

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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…

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

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