A Spy's London (ePub)
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
File Size: 42.5 MB (.epub)
Illustrations: 100+ images
ISBN: 9781473811607
Published: 30th October 2014
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A lively and fact-filled walk book of 136 sites in Central London relating to spies, spy-catchers and subversives from more than a century of London's secret history.
This is not just a fascinating read, with all of the twists and turns and betrayals that may be expected of spying, it is a very original guide book that sets out a series of London walks. This is a book that should appeal to a very wide audience because the subject is one that generates considerable interest, rivalled only by fictional detectives. This may have been done many times for battlefields but never before to expose the murky world of spies which often achieved more than a bloody battle in a foreign field.
FIRE Reviews
A wonderful book
Paul Diggett
The author invites you to speculate on many intriguing stories surrounding names from the past that many will recognise.
Pennant
Engagingly written….as far as one can judge, accurate as well as entertaining
Brian Crozier, in The Salisbury Review
Cloak and dagger buffs now have their own guide….a fine new perspective on a favourite City
finetravel.com
Well researched, clearly presented
American Intelligence Journal
Confirms London as the spookiest city in the world
Building Design- London
A great gift
Elizabeth Bancroft, in The Intelligencer
Informal, chatty….some surprising places
Travel Books Worldwide
Likely to bring on a heart attack if read by an elderly British secret service officer
M.R.D Foot, in Intelligence and International Security
Fascinating, well-organised, perceptive, informed….if you're going to London, take this book with you; if not, read it for fun
Robert Scott Milne, in Travelwriter Marketletter
An important contribution to our understanding of intellegence and suppliment the Venona document in a number of important ways
Herbert Romerstein, in Human Events
A super book, good reading even when not in London
Hayden B. Peake, in World Intelligence Review
A riveting tour de force
Arnaud de Borchgrave, author of The Spike
About Roy Berkeley
Roy Berkeley (1935-2009) wrote fiction under 14 pseudonyms, A Spy's London is the only book under his own name. Born in Washington, D.C., he received his B.A. from Columbia College, in New York City, and did graduate work in history there. He was a celebrated folk singer, a newspaper editor, a photojournalist, and a teacher of American history through folk music, giving courses or single performances in many venues, also doing European tours under sponsorship if the U.S. Information Agency. He served in an intelligence agency in his twenties, and later (after moving to Vermont) was a deputy Sheriff and a member of the state's Fish & Wildlife Board. He was married for 43 years to his loving wife Ellen.