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'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard
Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorThe extraordinary story of the most
highly decorated British spymaster of the Cold War, Sir Maurice
Oldfield. Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (commonly known
as the SIS or MI6), he was the first Chief to be named and pictured
in the press, and often alleged by them to be the model for the
screen versions of both Ian Fleming’s M and John Le Carré’s George
Smiley.This major study of Oldfield’s life portrays one of the UK’s
most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. He was the
first Chief of MI6 that hadn’t come from an upper-class background
or studied at Eton or Oxbridge. Rather, he was a farmer’s son from
a provincial grammar school who found himself accidentally plunged
into the world of espionage by the outbreak of the Second World
War. Oldfield was our man in Washington at the time of the Cuban
Missile Crisis and the assassination of JFK, and was largely
responsible for keeping Britain out of the Vietnam War. This is the
fascinating life story of Maurice Oldfield, written by his nephew
Martin Pearce, who remembers asking his uncle what he did for a
job. 'Oh it’s quite boring really, dear boy. I’m a kind of security
guard at embassies,' was the reply...
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