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House of Spies - St Ermin's Hotel, the London Base of British Espionage (Paperback)
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House of Spies - St Ermin's Hotel, the London Base of British Espionage (Paperback)
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List price R320
Loot Price R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
You Save R55 (17%)
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St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence
since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as 'The Works Canteen'.
Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to
be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less
well-known names. Winston Churchill allegedly conceived the idea of
the Special Operations Executive there over a glass (or two) of his
favourite champagne in the early days of the Second World War, and
the operation was started up in three gloomy rooms on the hotel's
second floor, with the traitorous Cambridge Spies among its
founders. When Stalin's Russia turned to a peacetime enemy in the
Cold War that followed, Kim Philby and Guy Burgess handed over
intelligence to their Russian counterparts in the dark corners of
the hotel, while MI6 man George Blake operated as a Soviet double
agent just across the road in Artillery Mansions. Meanwhile, St
Ermin's proximity to government offices ensured its continued use
by both domestic and foreign secret agents. In this first book on
St Ermin's, Peter Matthews, a witness to the intelligence battle
for supremacy between MI5, MI6 and the KGB, explores this
remarkable true history that is more riveting than any spy novel.
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