SOURCE: THE TIMES
Who is Ben
Macintyre?
A columnist
at The Times, he has worked as a newspaper correspondent in New York, Paris and
Washington. Besides his journalistic feat, he is the author of 12 books in non-fiction.
The bestselling historian has penned astonishing tales with a wide array of
characters. The incredible true stories are racy, thrilling and nail-biting.
Let’s look
at some of his works:
1)
COLDITZ
The most
infamous prison in history speaks of human grit and perseverance. The indomitable
human spirit wrestles with hardships unspeakable.
2)
AGENT
SONYA: LOVER, MOTHER, SOLDIER, SPY
Another
incredible story of a female spy- Ursula Kuczynksi gathers secrets to help the
Soviet Union build the atomic bomb. A mother of three and a devout homemaker
Sonya Burton was no less than an ideal homemaker.
3)
SAS:
ROUGE WARRIORS
Turned
into a BBC series, the Warriors are the toughest! Spearheaded by Winston Churchill,
the recruitment led to the formation of the world’s most popular organisation: the
SAS.
4)
THE
SPY AND THE TRAITOR: THE GREATEST ESPIONAGE STORY OF THE COLD WAR
Ben is not
just Britain’s greatest historian, but a remarkable storyteller of true
accounts. His treatment of the subject is raw, bold and thrilling. One of the
greatest espionage stories of a KGB double agent has some priceless secrets to
offer.
5)
A
SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL
You know
someone very well only to discover you hadn’t known them at all. Duplicity,
betrayal, and conflicted conscience led to some of the most difficult ideological
battles. For MI6 and CIA, Philby’s biography is perhaps the last tale of
betrayal during the Cold War.
6)
AGENT
ZIGZAG: A TRUE STORY OF NAZI ESPOINAGE, LOVE AND BETRAYAL
Agent Zigzag
is Edie Chapman a double agent headed to thwart Britain's intelligence service.
MI5 was Britain’s Agent Zigzag owing his allegiance to the Nazi camp. Operation
Mincemeat is an elaborate of the deception ever conducted claiming to
have changed the course of World War.
His
other works are:
7)
Double
Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies centres around 6 June 1944.
8)
The
Napolean of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty is said
to have been a model for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Moriarty, Sherlock’s nemesis
9)
The
Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue as the Daily Telegraph Books
of the Year says are “…. Delightful nuggets on the uses and abuses of the
English language”
10 For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and
James Bond tells the tale of a masterful writer of spy stories, Ian Fleming, a
journalist set out to write on February morning 1952.
11 A Foreign Field is a saga of a
stranded soldier in foreign fields.
12 Forgotten Fatherland: The Search
for Elizabeth Nietzche recounts the life of a bigot who founded- Nueva
Germania- a colony of racially pure in
Paraguay. A mentor to Hilter, she also inspired the cult following of his brother’s philosophy.
13 Josiah the Great: The True Story of
the Man Who Would Be King is an outstanding tale of an American wanderlust and
adventurer who declared himself the heir to Alexander the Great.
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