Traces the life and career of British master spy Menzies, who played a pivotal role in intelligence activities during World War II

Anthony Cave Brown

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Longman Publishing

Alpha Books

MacMillan

1st Collier books ed, New York, 1989, ©1987

United States, United States of America

1st Collier Books ed edition, May 1989

1st Edition, First Edition, PS, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 797-813.
Includes index.

"One man alone dictated the course of events in the World War II intelligence game-- a more mysterious, more influential, and more devious spymaster than even Allan Dulles, "Wild Bill" Donovan, or Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. He was the man fashioned by Ian Fleming into "M" and by John le Carre into "Control." His name: Stewart Graham Menzies. As chief of British Secret Intelligence Service, "C" delivered to Churchill the greatest achievement in modern intelligence history, Ultra, which enabled SIS to read virtually all crucial wireless signals within the German high command; he struggled bitterly with "Wild Bill" Donovan, head of OSS, for supremacy over all Allied intelligence; and he was betrayed by his handpicked successor, Kim Philby, who, with Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, was discovered to be a Soviet double agent. Anthony Cave Brown resurrects the legend of "C" to write the first and definitive biography of Britain's greatest spymaster. The only author ever to interview extensively the mysterious and reclusive Menzies, Brown has exhaustively researched and brilliantly captured the epic story of the last great defender of the British Empire"--Back cover

Stewart Graham Menzies was the chief architect and head of the British SIS under Winston Churchill through World War II.

2023-06-28