Agent M: The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y2JM6S8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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There is more to MI5 than you knew! Agent M is a worthy read! This will likely be a Best Seller. Hemming has brought to life intriguing people in history who are too often forgotten. I especially liked his focus on Maxwell Knight and all of the connected characters as it related to the desperate struggle between nations. Fascinating personalities. Very interesting to students of WWII history, like myself.Many new discoveries for me.Well written throughout with complete supporting notes, bibliography and index. The layout and type set are great. I look forward to mor. David Shulman said Inside MI5. Henry Hemming introduces us to Maxwell Knight a jazz playing naturalist with his own private menagerie who turns out to be a great talent spotter and spy runner for MI5. He is the model for Ian Fleming’s “M.” He marries three times, but none of them were consummated. In other words he was quite the quirky guy.Hemming’s biography largely focuses on the 19"Inside MI5" according to David Shulman. Henry Hemming introduces us to Maxwell Knight a jazz playing naturalist with his own private menagerie who turns out to be a great talent spotter and spy runner for MI5. He is the model for Ian Fleming’s “M.” He marries three times, but none of them were consummated. In other words he was quite the quirky guy.Hemming’s biography largely focuses on the 1920’s and 19Inside MI5 Henry Hemming introduces us to Maxwell Knight a jazz playing naturalist with his own private menagerie who turns out to be a great talent spotter and spy runner for MI5. He is the model for Ian Fleming’s “M.” He marries three times, but none of them were consummated. In other words he was quite the quirky guy.Hemming’s biography largely focuses on the 1920’s and 1930’s where Knight is recruited into a private spying operation that infiltrates the British fascisti. Knigh. 0’s where Knight is recruited into a private spying operation that infiltrates the British fascisti. Knigh. 0’s and 19Inside MI5 Henry Hemming introduces us to Maxwell Knight a jazz playing naturalist with his own private menagerie who turns out to be a great talent spotter and spy runner for MI5. He is the model for Ian Fleming’s “M.” He marries three times, but none of them were consummated. In other words he was quite the quirky guy.Hemming’s biography largely focuses on the 1920’s and 1930’s where Knight is recruited into a private spying operation that infiltrates the British fascisti. Knigh. 0’s where Knight is recruited into a private spying operation that infiltrates the British fascisti. Knigh. "One of a Kind and Thank God he was on Our Side !!" according to R Michael R. Look, if you aren't into spy history or how countries protect themselves then this book sure ain't for you. BUT, if you'd like to know about the fabulous and eccentric people who protected England and America from Fascist and Communist agents during WW2 then this book is one great read.It's the biography of England's most famous spy runner, the man who recruited and managed agents for MI5. In fact he was MI5. Maxwell Knight did the job better then the combined staffs of MI5 because he lived and breathed t
Yet he had a gift for turning practically anyone into a fearless secret agent. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this movement. Spying is the art of knowing whom to trust - and whom to betray.Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history, rumored to be the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character M. He was also truly eccentric - a thrice-married jazz aficionado who kept a menagerie of exotic pets - and almost totally unqualified for espionage. In telling Knight's remarkable story, Agent M also reveals for the first time in print the names and stories of some of the men and women recruited by Knight on behalf of MI5 who were asked to