Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He regularly presents BBC series based on his acclaimed books.
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He regularly presents BBC series based on his acclaimed books. See less
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Ben Macintyre book reviews
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Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
Big promise, little delivery
The Aryan German community in Paraguay is the object of our search, and yet
it turns out to be a feeble enterprise with little or no historical consequences.
Most of the book is filler material ... Read More
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
You Couldn't Make This Story Up!
by Jason O, Jul 22, 2020
What a remarkable account of an all too-important part of world history! Ben Macintyre is on a short list of authors who can lift a real-life, non-fictional story far above the shoulders of any ... Read More
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
English to a Fault
They'd forgive him most anything, because he was one of them: the genteel upper-- classes where drunkeness and eccentricity lead not to a suspicion of evil deceit, but to amused acceptance--a jovial ... Read More
