George Tomkyns Chesney
George Tomkyns Chesney (1830-1895) The man who started it all with The Battle of Dorking Biography: Educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and […]
Category: Resources
Clarke, I. F. (1979). The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2011
Clarke, I. F. (1979). The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2011. Book Club Associates / Jonathan Cape. Discussion of the future is a working […]
Piper, L. (2002 / 2007), The Tragedy of Erskine Childers
Dangerous Waters – The Life and Death of Erskine Childers by Leonard Piper (2002) republished as The Tragedy of Erskine Childers – […]
Erskine Childers – Biographical Sources
Biography An overview biography can be found at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Erskine_Childers There is considerable biographical detail in Maldwin Drummond’s The Riddle (1985) Further […]
Drummond, M. (1985) The Riddle
The Riddle by Maldwin Drummond (1985) Nautical Books, London This is the definitive study of the background to the writing of The […]
Spy Fever: The Post Office Affair
Margaret Tait Flaws, Spy Fever: The Post Office Affair, Shetland Times Ltd (14 Mar. 2009) At the beginning of the First World […]
Denning, M. (1987) Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller
Michael Denning (1987) Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul It is a habit […]
Atkins, J. (1984) The British Spy Novel
John Atkins (1984) The British Spy Novel, London, John Calder Fiction about spies and spying – a genre of which British writers […]
Wark, W.K. (1991) Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence
Wesley K. Wark (1991) Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence This book won the Canadian Crime Writers’ Arthur Ellis Award for […]
Wade, S. (2009) Victoria’s Spymasters: Empire and Espionage
Stephen Wade (2009) Victoria’s Spymasters – Empire and Espionage, Stroud, The History Press Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers […]