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The Man in the Brown Suit - MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin (Hardcover)
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The Man in the Brown Suit - MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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On 16 July 1936 a man in a brown suit stepped from the crowd on
London's Constitution Hill and pointed a loaded revolver at King
Edward VIII as he rode past. The monarch was moments from death.
But MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch had known for
three months an attack was planned: the man in the brown suit
himself had warned them. This mysterious man, lost to history, was
George McMahon, a petty criminal with a record of involvement with
the police. He was also an MI5 informant, providing intelligence on
Italian and possibly German espionage in Britain. Dismissed by the
rest of the world as a drunken loser and fantasist, he saw his life
as an epic drama. Why did MI5 and the police fail to act? Was it a
simple blunder on the part of the security services, or was
something far more sinister involved? In this first full-length
study of the threat to the life of Edward VIII, James Parris uses
material from MI5 and police files at the National Archives to
reach explosive conclusions about the British Establishment's
determination to remove Edward from the throne.
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