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Maverick Spy

Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II

By: Hamish MacGibbon

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Maverick Spy

Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II

By: Hamish MacGibbon

Hamish MacGibbon examines his family history after learning that his father was a spy for the Soviet Union during WWII. In this book, James MacGibbon's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage in post-war Britain. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War, brought to life by engaging prose and original MI5 records. The MI5 had long suspected James of espionage and interrogated him at the war's end. Without a confession, there was little the British secret intelligence services could do except place James and his family under close surveillance, the proof of which his children discovered shortly after his death. Hamish MacGibbon draws on a wealth of documents gleamed from official government archives, which shows how mail was regularly intercepted and private telephone calls recorded. The result is a fascinating exploration of how the war, espionage and a seemingly regular family depict the ordinary and the extraordinary interweaving.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350178012

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9781350178014

Maverick Spy

Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II

By: Hamish MacGibbon

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Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II

By: Hamish MacGibbon

A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James's death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear – in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War.

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1786722631

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9781786722638

British Trade Unions, 1707–1918, Part I

By: W. Hamish Fraser

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British Trade Unions, 1707–1918, Part I

By: W. Hamish Fraser

Drawing from a variety of libraries and archives, this collection brings together material to illustrate the history of the development of trade unionism and industrial relations. It spans the period from the early journeymen's trade societies as they emerged in the 18th-Century through to the end of the First World War.

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1600

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Routledge

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1000420132

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9781000420135

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