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| | Amazon.ca: Her Majestys Secret Service: Books: Christopher Andrew (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | A parade of remarkable and sometimes notorious figures marches vividly throughout these lively pages, including Mansfield Cumming, in whose honor the present head of MI6 is still known as "C" (not "M," as in Ian Fleming's novels), master spy Sidney Reilly and Soviet double agent Kim Philby. |
 | | But the dominating figure, surprisingly, is Winston Churchill, whose faith in and fascination for secret intelligence manifested itself fruitfully from his tenure as home secretary before World War I to his days as prime minister in World War II. |
 | | Never mind that it is replete with pilot plots for a rich Masterpiece Theatre series, it has a lot to say about intelligence services, ideological politics, spy mania (real, fictional, and imagined), national character, and bureaucracy. |
| www.amazon.ca /Majestys-Secret-Service-Christopher-Andrew/dp/0670809411 (363 words) |
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