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100 1 $aPearce, Martin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSpymaster :$bthe life of Britain's most decorated Cold War spy and head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield /$cMartin Pearce.
246 30 $aLife of Britain's most decorated cold war spy and head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
264 1 $aLondon :$bCorgi Books,$c2017.
300 $a482 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), portraits ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London: Bantam Press, 2016.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Uncle M -- The worst thirty-six hours -- A Derbyshire lad -- The Manchester years -- A good war -- From Cairo with love -- Into his majesty's secret service -- Go east young man -- To London-- and the world -- The horrors -- Return to the east -- The tenant of Waterside Drive -- Khrushchev, Kennedy, Oldfield -- Mesmerized by moles -- Close to the summit -- Frustration -- A waiting game -- M = C part one -- M = C part two -- A lonely man in Stormont -- Anatomy of a smear.
520 $aThe 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), 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 Carre's George Smiley. Pearce tells details of one of the UK's most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school, Oldfield found himself accidentally plunged into the world of espionage by the outbreak of the Second World War, was 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.
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