The identity of Jack the Ripper

DEACON, Richard

Arrow Books

The British connection: Russia's manipulation of British individuals and institutions

Hamish Hamilton

318p black hardback with laminated cover, first edition, some use, pages clean with index and plates, very good

The Israeli secret service

History

Middle East

Hamilton

The Chinese Secret Service

Ballantine Books

Sir Maurice Oldfield, Director-General of MI6 between 1973 and 1978, might at first seem an unlikely spymaster. Born near Bakewell in Derbyshire in 1915, he was the eldest of eleven children born to a local tenant farmer. Yet he won a scholarship to Manchester University and appeared set on an academic life until the outbreak of war in 1939. Soon after he joined the Army he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Corps in the Middle East, where his remarkable talents swiftly earned him a commission and he finished the war a lieutenant-colonel. From then on his career in intelligence was assured. This fascinating biography, the first of any head of the secret service, brings to life a complex, likeable man, someone with a supreme gift for blending into the background yet also possessed of a fine sense of humour, an ability to make long-lasting friendships and a complete lack of self-importance. Oldfield's rapid grasp of people and situations often served him well: he was among the first to suspect Philby and during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 his belief in Colonel Oleg Penkovsky helped persuade the Americans that the documents leaked by Penkovsky were indeed genuine. Later his appreciation of the need for first-class intelligence from South America helped avert a Falklands war in 1977. In his portrait Richard Deacon considers the often-quoted view that Oldfield served as a prototype for the fictional George Smiley of John Le Carre's novels, but the person he describes is altogether more attractive. Quietly patriotic, deeply attached to his family and his birthplace, Sir Maurice Oldfield will be remembered as a great friend and benefactor as well as a formidable intelligence chief.

'C': A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield

Biographies & Memoirs

Macdonald

HARDCOVER.... LIKE NEW.... CLEAN, NO FOLDED PAGES, TIGHT, NO EDGE WEAR

Spyclopaedia : An Encyclopaedia of Spies, Secret Services, Operations, Jargons and All Subjects Related to the World of Espionage

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Macdonald & C.

This is the story of the Apostles - Cambridge University's elite intellectual secret society - from its modest beginning in the 1820s to the revelation in recent decades that two of the most notorious "moles" for the Soviet secret service - Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt - were Apostles.

The Cambridge Apostles: A History of Cambridge University's Elite Intellectual Secret Society

Europe

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Traces five hundred years of Japanese espionage, recounts the Kempei tai's most memorable successes, and shows how commercial spying has superseded military espionage

Kempei Tai

Americas

BERKLEY

A History of the Russian Secret Service

Russia

New English Library

I know, microwaves are fairly common, you've had one forever and why would you need a cookbook? Because, more than likely, you're not using your microwave to its full capacity - you're just nuking tv dinners or making popcorn without realizing there's so much more you can be using it for - such as bread pudding. Yes, you can make yummy bread pudding in your microwave and have it anytime you want, or even fix it for a special someone.Or how about Chicken Divan? or Veal Chop Suey? Mr Deacon takes you throught a 5 day microwave cooking course, originally designed to make fols feel more comfortable with their microwaves. Now his instructions show you how to broaden your view and your usage of a microwave oven. There's even a test to tell if your microwave is properly calibrated so you'll be able to cook more efficently. There's even a "calorie counters" section.I recommend this book to all of you who just use the microwave to make popcorn or heat up water - find out how time saving and efficent a microwave can be by using this book.Comme

Richard Deacon's Microwave Cookery

BANTAM BOOKS

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